Radiation energy transfer and trapping in single crystals of hemihydrate and hydrochloride of 5-methylcytosine doped with 5-methylthiocytosine - An EPR study

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-148

  Herak, Janko N ^a   Sanković, Krešimir ^a   Krilov, Dubravka ^b   Jakšić, Milko ^c   Hüttermann, Jürgen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FREE RADICALS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION EFFECTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

METHYLCYTOSINE HEMIHYDRATE;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

5 METHYLCYTOSINE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; IONIZING RADIATION; RADIATION ENERGY;

EID: 0031214974     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-806X(97)00027-3     Document Type: Article

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