Carbon capture and biocatalytic oxygen production of photosystem II from thylakoids and microalgae on nanobiomaterials

Soon Hyuk Lim; Se-Woong La; Thi Thuy Hang Hoang; Quang Trung Le; Soonmin Jang; Jaebum Choo; Yasser Vasseghian; Sang Jun Son; Sang-Woo Joo

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128279

Carbon capture and biocatalytic oxygen production of photosystem II from thylakoids and microalgae on nanobiomaterials

Bioresour Technol. 2023 Jan:368:128279. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128279. Epub 2022 Nov 14.

Authors

Soon Hyuk Lim¹, Se-Woong La², Thi Thuy Hang Hoang², Quang Trung Le², Soonmin Jang³, Jaebum Choo⁴, Yasser Vasseghian⁵, Sang Jun Son⁶, Sang-Woo Joo⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, South Korea.
² Department of Chemistry, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, South Korea.
³ Department of Chemistry, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, South Korea.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, South Korea.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, South Korea; University Centre for Research & Development, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, 140413, India; Department of Sustainable Engineering, Saveetha School of Engineering, SIMATS, Chennai, 602105, India. Electronic address: vasseghian@ssu.ac.kr.
⁶ Department of Chemistry, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, South Korea. Electronic address: sjson@ganchon.ac.kr.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, South Korea. Electronic address: sjoo@ssu.ac.kr.

PMID: 36351532
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128279

Abstract

Enhanced carbon capture and oxygen production via water splitting was observed by controlling the plasmon-induced resonance energy transfer (PIRET) for photosystem II (PSII) in thylakoid extracts and spirulina assembled on gold nanoparticle (AuNP) dimer arrays. The two types of vertical (V) and horizontal (H) AuNP dimer arrays were uniformly inserted inside pore diameter-controlled templates. Based on the theoretical calculations, the longitudinal mode of the H AuNP dimer array was found to be sensitive to the nanogap distances between the two AuNPs in resonance with the absorption at P680 of the PSII. The longitudinal modes that interacted with P680 of PSII increased from the V to the H conformer. The optical properties from the H AuNP dimer array caused overlapping absorbance and photoluminescence with PSII, and the H AuNP dimer arrays exhibited a significant increase in carbon capture and oxygen generation rates in comparison with those of the bare PSII protein complex under light irradiation via the controlled PIRET process.

Keywords: Carbon capture; Microalgae; Photosystem II; Thylakoids.

MeSH terms

Carbon / metabolism
Gold
Metal Nanoparticles*
Microalgae* / metabolism
Oxygen / metabolism
Photosystem II Protein Complex / metabolism
Thylakoids / metabolism
Thylakoids / radiation effects

Substances

Photosystem II Protein Complex
Gold
Oxygen
Carbon