Published date:Apr 17 2018

Journal Title: KnE Energy

Issue title: The 2nd International Symposium "Physics, Engineering and Technologies for Biomedicine"

Pages:416–419

DOI: 10.18502/ken.v3i2.1845

Yu P RakovichYury.Rakovich@gmail.com

The purpose of this study is to investigate the possibility of improving the efficiency of a photosensitizer utilizing colloidal semiconductor quantum dots as light-harvesting nanoantenna and reveal the mechanism of this enhancement.

Keywords: quantum dots, photosensitizer, photodynamic therapy, FRET, charge transfer

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