Fig. 6: Design concepts for pigment-nanoparticle interactions.
From: Photophysics of plasmonically enhanced self-assembled artificial light-harvesting nanoantennas
Schematic showing plasmonic confinement of small molecules via a a solid-phase plasmonic substrate and b solution-phase nanoparticle aggregation. Since artificial chlorosome mimics are quite large compared to the size of plasmonic nanoparticles, the number of pigments placed under plasmonic confinement is limited for c solid-phase plasmonic substrate compared to d when nanoparticles are embedded within the chlorosome mimics via simultaneous pigment and nanoparticle aggregation.
