Old chromophores, new photoactivation paradigms, trendy applications: flavins in blue light-sensing photoreceptors.

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Published in Photochem Photobiol on March 23, 2011

Authors

Aba Losi1, Wolfgang Gärtner

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Physics, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

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