Non-radiative relaxation of photoexcited chlorophylls: Theoretical and experimental study

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bricker, William P ^a   Shenai, Prathamesh M ^b   Ghosh, Avishek ^c   Liu, Zhengtang ^c   Enriquez, Miriam Grace M ^c   Lambrev, Petar H ^c,d   Tan, Howe Siang ^c   Lo, Cynthia S ^a   Tretiak, Sergei ^e   Fernandez Alberti, Sebastian ^f   Zhao, Yang ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^e CENTER FOR INTEGRATED NANOTECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL B;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHLOROPHYLL; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84941087396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13625     Document Type: Article

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