{"id":83970,"date":"2018-10-25T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/team-study-breaks-forster-resonant-energy-transfer-fret-distance-limit"},"modified":"2018-10-25T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:22:23","slug":"team-study-breaks-forster-resonant-energy-transfer-fret-distance-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/team-study-breaks-forster-resonant-energy-transfer-fret-distance-limit","title":{"rendered":"Team study breaks Forster resonant energy transfer (FRET) distance limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-study-breaks-forster-resonant-energy-transfer-fret-distance-limit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using engineered nanocomposite structures called metamaterials, a City College of New York-led research team reports the ability to measure a significant increase in the energy transfer between molecules. Reported in the journal <i>ACS Photonics<\/i>, this breakthrough breaks the F\\xF6rster resonance energy transfer (FRET) distance limit of ~10\u201320 nanometers, and leads to the possibility of measuring larger molecular assemblies.<\/p>\n<p>And since FRET is a staple technique in many biological and biophysical fields, this new development could benefit pharmaceuticals, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnergy <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/transfer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transfer<\/a> between molecules plays a central role in phenomena such as photosynthesis and is also used as a spectroscopic ruler for identifying structural changes of molecules,\u201d said Vinod Menon, professor of physics in City College\u2019s Division of Science. \u201cHowever, the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> transfer is usually limited in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/distance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">distance<\/a> over which it occurs, typically reaching 10 to 20 nm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-10-team-forster-resonant-energy-fret.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;10-team-forster-resonant-energy-fret.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using engineered nanocomposite structures called metamaterials, a City College of New York-led research team reports the ability to measure a significant increase in the energy transfer between molecules. Reported in the journal ACS Photonics, this breakthrough breaks the F\\xF6rster resonance energy transfer (FRET) distance limit of ~10\u201320 nanometers, and leads to the possibility of measuring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}