Abstract
We study electronic excitation transfer in the complexes of Ag clusters with oligonucleotides. Steady-state fluorescence excitation spectra show that the excitation energy is transferred to Ag cluster from all the 30 nucleobases of a 15-mer DNA duplex. This is in contrast to DNA-dyes complexes, where the energy transfer to the dye occurs from neighboring DNA bases only. Fluorescence decay curve for the DNA duplex shows that the process of energy transfer occurs within <100 fs. The obtained results suggest coherent excitonic type of the transfer rather than trivial Forster mechanism.
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