The effects of combining naturally evolved photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes with inorganic functional materials, especially plasmonically active metallic nanostructures, have been a widely studied topic in the last few decades. Besides other applications, it seems to be reasonable using such hybrid systems for designing future biomimetic solar cells. In this paper, we describe selected results that point out to various aspects of the interactions between photosynthetic complexes and plasmonic excitations in Silver Island Films (SIFs). In addition to simple light-harvesting complexes, like peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP) or the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex, we also discuss the properties of large, photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) and Photosystem I (PSI)-both prokaryotic PSI core complexes and eukaryotic PSI supercomplexes with attached antenna clusters (PSI-LHCI)-deposited on SIF substrates.

Department of Chemical Physics and Optics Charles University Ke Karlovu 3 12116 Prague Czech Republic

Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research Polish Academy of Sciences Okolna 2 50 422 Wrocław Poland

Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences Kasprzaka 44 52 01 224 Warszawa Poland

Institute of Physics Faculty of Physics Astronomy and Informatics Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun Grudziadzka 5 87 100 Torun Poland

Solar Fuels Laboratory Centre of New Technologies University of Warsaw Banacha 2C 02 097 Warsaw Poland

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