Peter Adams

@AdamsBiophysLab

Our research explores biological light-harvesting proteins, artificial photosynthesis and lipid membranes. Biochemistry, spectroscopy, nanotech, AFM, FLIM.

University of Leeds, UK

eps.leeds.ac.uk/physics/staff/…

Joined September 2016

Peter Adams
@AdamsBiophysLab
Jun 26
Check out our new paper published in #Nanoscale journal: "Analysis of lipid-assisted self-assembly of hydrophobic CIS/ZnS quantum dots into water-stable nanoclusters..." 🧐☀️ doi.org/10.1039/D6NR00… Great work Joel Whipp+Kev Critchley @nanoscale_rsc #light #quantum #fluorescence
Peter Adams
@AdamsBiophysLab
Dec 11, 2025
Funded #PhD studentship opportunity on optical spectroscopy and structural techniques to study #photosynthesis and #solar energy capture in purple bacteria!🌞🦠Apply by 7 Jan 2026 @HitchcockLab @BrionyYorke Please share with UG students (Oct 2026 start) tinyurl.com/YB-Adams-2026
Peter Adams
@AdamsBiophysLab
Sep 10, 2025
"The impact of carotenoid energy levels on the exciton dynamics and singlet-triplet annihilation in bacterial LH2" - our new preprint inn #bioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… Great work @sagarsden! in collab with @HitchcockLab @gabriela_ssc jakub psencik 😀 #photosynthesis #light
Peter Adams
@AdamsBiophysLab
Jun 11, 2025
I'm doing the #BigHike marathon in the peak district to raise money for Cancer Research, with my wife Siobhan, this Saturday 14 June 2025! In memory of Siobhan’s grandma, Stella 🙂 Please #sponsor us by donating money to this charity here- fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/siobhan-a… @CRUKresearch
Peter Adams
@AdamsBiophysLab
Jan 22, 2025
"Photocurrent Generation by Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes is Enhanced by Lipid-Linked Chromophores…" - Our new paper is in @JPhysChem now! Great work @Ash__Hancock @MNP_Leeds + collab with Dewa group in Nagoya!
pubs.acs.org
Photocurrent Generation by Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes is Enhanced by Lipid-Linked Chromopho...
Abstract. The light-harvesting pigment–protein complex II (LHCII) from plants can be used as a component for biohybrid photovoltaic devices, acting as a ph