Energy-related research (solar energy, light-to-electricity conversion, photosynthesis, proton pumps, etc.)

1. A.Y. Smirnov, S. Savel'ev, L.G. Mourokh, F. Nori
   Unidirectional rotary nanomotors powered by an electrochemical potential gradient
   (2007). [arXiv]

2. A.Y. Smirnov, L.G. Mourokh, F. Nori
   Forster mechanism of electron-driven proton pump
   Phys. Rev. E 77, 011919 (2007). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

3. A.Y. Smirnov, S. Savel'ev, L.G. Mourokh, F. Nori
   Proton transport and torque generation in rotary biomotors
   Phys. Rev. E 78, 031921 (2008). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

4. A.Y. Smirnov, S. Savel'ev, F. Nori
   Shuttle-mediated proton pumping across the inner mitochondrial membrane
   (2008). [arXiv]

5. A.Y. Smirnov, S. Savel'ev, F. Nori
   Diffusion-controlled generation of a proton-motive force across a biomembrane
   Phys. Rev. E 80, 011916 (2009). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

6. A.Y. Smirnov, L.G. Mourokh, P.K. Ghosh, F. Nori
   High-efficiency energy conversion in a molecular triad connected to conducting leads
   J. Phys. Chem. C. 113, 21218 (2009). [PDF][Link]
   Supporting online information is available: [click here]
   A pedagogical powerpoint presentation is available: [click here]

7. A.Y. Smirnov, L.G. Mourokh, F. Nori
   Kinetics of proton pumping in cytochrome c oxidase
   J. Chem. Phys. 130, 235105 (2009). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

8. P.K. Ghosh, A.Y. Smirnov, F. Nori
   Modelling light-driven proton pumps in artificial photosynthetic reaction centers
   J. Chem. Phys. 131, 035102 (2009). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
   Selected as the only "Research Highlight" (local PDF) of that issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP).
   Featured in "RIKEN Research News", Forecasting solar-energy harvests (local PDF) .
   A pedagogical powerpoint presentation is available: [click here]

9. A.Y. Smirnov, L.G. Mourokh, F. Nori
   Electrostatic models of electron-driven proton transfer across a lipid membrane
   J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 23, 234101 (2011). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
   Invited article for the special issue on "Transport Phenomena in Proton Conducting Media".

10. P.K. Ghosh, A.Y. Smirnov, F. Nori
    Quantum effects in energy and charge transfer in an artificial photosynthetic complex
    J. Chem. Phys. 134, 244103 (2011). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
    This paper has been selected for the June 2011 issue of JCP: BioChemical Physics.

11. P.K. Ghosh, A.Y. Smirnov, F. Nori
    Artificial photosynthetic reaction centers coupled to light-harvesting antennas
    Phys. Rev. E 84, 061138 (2011). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

12. C.M. Li, N. Lambert, Y.N. Chen, G.Y. Chen, F. Nori
    Witnessing Quantum Coherence: from solid-state to biological systems
    Scientific Reports 2, 885 (2012). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

13. A.Y. Smirnov, F. Nori
    Modeling the Q-cycle mechanism of transmembrane energy conversion
    Phys. Biol 9, 016011 (2012). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

14. N. Lambert, Y.N. Chen, Y.C. Chen, C.M. Li, G.Y. Chen, F. Nori
    Functional quantum biology in photosynthesis and magnetoreception
    (2013). [arXiv]

15. N. Lambert, Y.N. Chen, Y.C. Chen, C.M. Li, G.Y. Chen, F. Nori
    Quantum biology
    Nature Physics 9, 10-18 (2013). [PDF][Link][arXiv] (published online Dec. 12, 2012)

16. P.K. Ghosh, V.R. Misko, F. Marchesoni, F. Nori
    Self-Propelled Janus Particles in a Ratchet: Numerical Simulations
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 268301 (2013). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
    Editors' Suggestion

17. N. Lambert, S. De Liberato, C. Emary, F. Nori
    Radical-pair model of magnetoreception with spin–orbit coupling
    New Journal of Physics 15, 083024 (2013). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

18. G.Y. Chen, N. Lambert, C.M. Li, Y.N. Chen, F. Nori
    Rerouting excitation transfers in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex
    Phys. Rev. E 88, 032120 (2013). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

19. P.K. Ghosh, P. Hanggi, F. Marchesoni, F. Nori
    Giant negative mobility of Janus particles in a corrugated channel
    Phys. Rev. E 89, 062115 (2014). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

20. L.G. Mourokh, F. Nori
    Energy transfer efficiency in the chromophore network strongly coupled to a vibrational mode
    Phys. Rev. E 92, 052720 (2015). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
21. P.K. Ghosh, Y. Li, F. Marchesoni, F. Nori
    Pseudochemotactic drifts of artificial microswimmers
    Phys. Rev. E 92, 012114 (2015). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

22. H.B. Chen, N. Lambert, Y.C. Cheng, Y.N. Chen, F. Nori
    Using non-Markovian measures to evaluate quantum master equations for photosynthesis
    Scientific Reports 5, 12753 (2015). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

23. H. Yu, A. Kopach, V.R. Misko, A.A. Vasylenko, D. Makarov, F. Marchesoni, F. Nori, L. Baraban, G. Cuniberti
    Confined Catalytic Janus Swimmers in a Crowded Channel: Geometry-Driven Rectification Transients and Directional Locking
    Small 12, pp. 5882-5890 (2016). [PDF][Link][Suppl. Info. PDF, AVI 1, 2, 3]

24. G.Y. Chen, N. Lambert, Y.A. Shih, M.H. Liu, Y.N. Chen, F. Nori
    Plasmonic bio-sensing for the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex
    Scientific Reports 7, 39720 (2017). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

25. S.L. Chen, N. Lambert, C.M. Li, G.Y. Chen, Y.N. Chen, A. Miranowicz, F. Nori
    Spatio-Temporal Steering for Testing Nonclassical Correlations in Quantum Networks
    Scientific Reports 7, 3728 (2017). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

26. M. Wertnik, A. Chin, F. Nori, N. Lambert
    Optimizing co-operative multi-environment dynamics in a dark-state-enhanced photosynthetic heat engine
    The Journal of Chemical Physics 149, 084112 (2018). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

27. X. Wang, L. Baraban, V.R. Misko, F. Nori, T. Huang, G. Cuniberti, J. Fassbender, D. Makarov
    Visible Light Actuated Efficient Exclusion Between Plasmonic Ag/AgCl Micromotors and Passive Beads
    Small 14, 1802537 (2018). [PDF][Link][Suppl. Info. PDF, MP4 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
    The cover of this journal [PDF, Link] is completely devoted to our work above.

28. X. Wang, L. Baraban, A. Nguyen, J. Ge, V.R. Misko, J. Tempere, F. Nori, P. Formanek, T. Huang, G. Cuniberti, J. Fassbender, D. Makarov
    High‐Motility Visible Light‐Driven Ag/AgCl Janus Micromotors
    Small 14, 1803613 (2018). [PDF][Link][Suppl. Info. PDF, AVI 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
    The cover of this journal [PDF, Link] is completely devoted to our work above.

29. B.X. Wang, M.J. Tao, Q. Ai, T. Xin, N. Lambert, D. Ruan, Y.C. Cheng, F. Nori, F.G. Deng, G.L. Long
    Efficient quantum simulation of photosynthetic light harvesting
    npj Quantum Information 4, 52 (2018). [PDF][Link][arXiv][Suppl. Info.]

30. T. Debnath, P.K. Ghosh, Y. Li, F. Marchesoni, F. Nori
    Active diffusion limited reactions
    J. Chem. Phys. 150, 154902 (2019). [PDF][Link]

31. T. Huang, S. Gobeil, X. Wang, V. Misko, F. Nori, W.D. Malsche, J. Fassbender, D. Makarov, G. Cuniberti, L. Baraban
    Anisotropic Exclusion Effect between Photocatalytic Ag/AgCl Janus Particles and Passive Beads in a Dense Colloidal Matrix
    Langmuir 36, pp. 7091-7099 (2020). [PDF][Link][Suppl. Info. PDF, AVI_1, AVI_2]

32. D. Debnath, P.K. Ghosh, V.R. Misko, Y. Li, F. Marchesoni, F. Nori
    Enhanced motility in a binary mixture of active nano/microswimmers
    Nanoscale 12, pp. 9717-9726 (2020). [PDF][Link][arXiv][Suppl. Info.]

33. T. Huang, V.R. Misko, S. Gobeil. X. Wang, F. Nori, J. Schutt, J. Fassbender, G. Cuniberti, D. Makarov, L. Baraban
    Inverse Solidification Induced by Active Janus Particles
    Advanced Functional Materials 30, 2003851 (2020). [PDF][Link][arXiv][Suppl. Info. PDF, AVI_1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

34. P.K. Ghosh, F. Marchesoni, Y. Li, F. Nori
    Active particle diffusion in convection roll arrays
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 23, pp. 11944–11953 (2021). [PDF][Link]

35. A. Guthrie, C.D. Satrya, Y.C. Chang, P. Menczel, F. Nori, J.P. Pekola
    Cooper-Pair Box Coupled to Two Resonators: An Architecture for a Quantum Refrigerator
    Phys. Rev. Applied 17, 064022 (2022). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

36. T. Huang, V. Misko, A. Caspari, A. Synytska, B. Ibarlucea, F. Nori, J. Fassbender, G. Cuniberti, D. Makarov, L. Baraban
    Electrokinetic Janus micromotors moving on topographically flat chemical patterns
    Communications Materials 3, 60 (2022). [PDF][Link][arXiv][Suppl. Info. PDF, MP4_1, 2, 3, 4, 5][Peer Review]

37. P.K. Ghosh, Y. Zhou, Y. Li, F. Marchesoni, F. Nori
    Binary Mixtures in Linear Convection Arrays
    ChemPhysChem 2022, e202200471 (2022). [PDF][Link]

38. N. Lambert, T. Raheja, S. Cross, P. Menczel, S. Ahmed, A. Pitchford, D. Burgarth, F. Nori
    QuTiP-BoFiN: A bosonic and fermionic numerical hierarchical-equations-of-motion library with applications in light-harvesting, quantum control, and single-molecule electronics
    Phys. Rev. Research 5, 013181 (2023). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

39. N. Lambert, F. Nori
    Quantum biology: An overview
    Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, 2e, (2023). [PDF][Link]