Excitonic effects from geometric order and disorder explain broadband optical absorption in eumelanin

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, Chun Teh ^a   Chuang, Chern ^b   Cao, Jianshu ^b   Ball, Vincent ^c,d   Ruch, David ^e   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UnitéINSERM 1121 ^*  (France)

^e LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; EUMELANIN; MELANIN; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PIGMENT;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; OXIDATION; ABSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION, PHYSICOCHEMICAL; DOPAMINE; ELECTRONS; MELANINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOLUTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84901322999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4859     Document Type: Article

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