Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the physical effect of light: opposed to photochemical.
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- adjective physics Describing
photoexcitation and any subsequent process that does not involve anychemical change
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Examples
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The strobe mode overcomes photophysical damage to the polymerase inflicted by excited fluorophores that occasionally “go into a bad state,” as Martin puts it.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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First, the photophysical properties of green fluorescent protein as a fluorophore are quite complex and thus, the molecule can accommodate a considerable amount of modification.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Focusing on complex naturally-occurring and synthetic supramolecular arrays, this work describes the mechanism by which transition metal complexes bind to DNA and how the DNA scaffold modifies the photochemical and photophysical properties to bound complexes.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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In this context fluorescent diamond nanoparticles present a valuable alternative thanks to their outstanding photophysical properties.
innovations-report 2009
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One might also envisage linking the photophysical properties to genetic characteristics.
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Single-molecule techniques have been extensively applied in photosynthetic systems and provided new insights into the photophysical processes and functional properties of photosynthetic chromophore-protein complexes
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One might also envisage linking the photophysical properties to genetic characteristics.
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Commenting on the conclusions from her research, Nina Schwalb says: "We have investigated the photophysical properties and have found that different base combinations have widely different fluorescence lifetimes.
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