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Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Molecular Rotors in Living Cells
Published on: February 9, 2012
Fluorescence lifetimes of alpha- and beta-carotenes
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|June 17, 1975
Abstract:
The fluorescence lifetimes of alpha- and beta-carotenes are both measured by a streak camera technique to be 55 plus or minus 10 ps at a concentration of 6 times 10- minus2 M in chloroform. Carotenes are present in chloroplasts at approximately this concentration.
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