ABA-C15: A new dye for probing solvent relaxation in phospholipid bilayers

Langmuir

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 9276-9282

  Sýkora, Jan ^a   Mudogo, Virima ^a,b   Hutterer, Rudi ^c   Nepras, Miloš ^d   Vaněrka, Jozef ^d   Kapusta, Petr ^e   Fidler, Vlastimil ^e   Hof, Martin ^a  

^a J HEYROVSKÝ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

^e CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DYES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; REACTION KINETICS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CHROMOPHORE; PALMITOYL AMINOBENZANTHRONE; SOLVATOCHROMISM; STEADY STATE FLUORESCENCE; STOKES SHIFT;

PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

EID: 0037180594     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la026435c     Document Type: Article

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