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Measuring Diffusion Coefficients via Two-photon Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching
Published on: February 26, 2010
On the coherent description of diffusion-influenced fluorescence quenching experiments II: early events
Gonzalo Angulo1, Daniel R Kattnig, Arnulf Rosspeintner
1Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland. gangulo@ichf.edu.pl
Abstract:
In a previous article we showed how to perform and analyze steady-state and nanosecond time-resolved experiments on fluorescence quenching by electron transfer in a coherent manner. Now, by making use of a superior time resolution, we explore the first stages of this kind of reaction. The novel information gained enables us to merge the results on the viscosity and the driving-force dependencies of the reaction rate. A unique set of parameters for a single reaction channel suffices to describe all the results in the frame of differential encounter theory for diffusion-influenced, bimolecular, remote electron-transfer reactions. The inclusion of the solvent structure is crucial for the understanding of the reaction kinetics. To the authors' best knowledge, this is the first time that such a comprehensive set of data has been successfully and jointly explained in the field, with physically sound parameters for electron-transfer reactions.
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