Firefly bioluminescence quantum yield and colour change by pH-sensitive green emission

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-47

  Ando, Yoriko ^a   Niwa, Kazuki ^b   Yamada, Nobuyuki ^c   Enomoto, Toshiteru ^c   Irie, Tsutomu ^c   Kubota, Hidehiro ^c   Ohmiya, Yoshihiro ^d   Akiyama, Hidefumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c ATTO Corporation   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA; CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUMS; CORRESPONDING STATE; COVERAGE FACTORS; GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; PARADIGM SHIFTS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

COLOR; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PHOTONICS; QUANTUM YIELD;

BIOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 37549048641     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.251     Document Type: Article

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