Long-lived fluorescence of homopolymeric guanine-cytosine DNA duplexes

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1193-1195

  Vayá, Ignacio ^a   Changenet Barret, Pascale ^a   Gustavsson, Thomas ^a   Zikich, Dragoslav ^b   Kotlyar, Alexander B ^b   Markovitsi, Dimitra ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 77956046099     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0pp00201a     Document Type: Article

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