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Lycopene crystalloids exhibit singlet exciton fission in tomatoes

Published:2018 Issue:13 Volume:20 Page:8640-8646
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Llansola-Portoles M. J.¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Redeckas K.⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Streckaité S.¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Ilioaia C.¹²³⁴⁵,Pascal A. A.¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Telfer A.¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵,Vengris M.⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰^ORCID,Valkunas L.¹⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Robert B.¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC)

2. CEA

3. CNRS

4. Université Paris-Saclay

5. Gif-sur-Yvette cedex

6. Quantum Electronics Department

7. Faculty of Physics

8. Vilnius University

9. Vilnius

10. Lithuania

11. Faculty of Natural Sciences

12. Department of Life Sciences

13. Imperial College

14. London

15. UK

16. Theoretical Physics Department

Abstract

Transient absorption studies conducted on in vitro lycopene aggregates, as well as on lycopene crystalloids inside tomato chromoplasts, reveal the appearance of a long-lived excited state, which we unambiguously identified as lycopene triplet generated by singlet exciton fission.

Funder

H2020 European Research Council

Lietuvos Mokslo Taryba

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/CP/C7CP08460A

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