A Unified Picture of S∗ in Carotenoids

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 3347-3352

  Balevičius, Vytautas ^a   Abramavicius, Darius ^a   Polívka, Tomáš ^b   Galestian Pour, Arpa ^c   Hauer, Jürgen ^c  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN LENGTH; CHAINS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); PIGMENTS;

CONJUGATED CHAIN MOLECULES; EXCITED STATE RELAXATION; GLOBAL TARGETS; STATIC PROPERTIES; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION DATA; VI-BRONIC TRANSITIONS; VIBRATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84984914596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01455     Document Type: Article

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