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Towards symmetry driven and nature inspired UV filter design
Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 4748 (2019) [ref]
The role of symmetric functionalisation on photoisomerisation of a UV commercial chemical filter
J.M. Woolley, J.S. Peters, M.A.P. Turner, G.J. Clarkson, M.D. Horbury and V.G. Stavros
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2019) [ref]
Substituent position effects on sunscreen photodynamics: a closer look at methyl anthranilate
N. D. N. Rodrigues, N. Cole-Filipiak, M. A. P. Turner, K. Krokidi, G. L. Thornton, G. W. Richings, N. D. M. Hines and V. G. Stavros.
Chem. Phys. 515, 596-602 (2018) [ref]
Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of the sunscreen constituent ethylhexyl triazone
L.A. Baker, S. Clark, S. Habershon and V.G. Stavros
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8 2113-2118 (2017) [ref]
Photophysics of the sunscreen ingredient menthyl anthranilate and its precursor methyl anthranilate: a bottom-up approach to photoprotection
N. D. N. Rodrigues, N. Cole-Filipiak, M. D. Horbury, M. Staniforth, T. N. V. Karsili, Y. Peperstraete and V. G. Stavros J. Photochem. Photobio. A. 353, 376-384 (2018) [ref]
Investigating isomer specific photoprotection in a model plant sunscreen
M. D. Horbury, A.L. Flourat, S.E. Greenough, F. Allais and V.G. Stavros.Chem. Commun., 54, 936-939 (2018) [ref]
First Step toward a Universal Fluorescent Probe: Unravelling the Photodynamics of an Amino–Maleimide Fluorophore
Michael Staniforth, Wen-Dong Quan, Tolga N. V. Karsili, Lewis A. Baker, Rachel K. O’Reilly, and Vasilios G. Stavros
J. Phys. Chem. A, 121:6357 (August 2017)
WCUS and affiliates publish a brand new work in which we discuss fluorescence quenching in a small, single moleucle fluorophore, and how learning the mechanism of this quenching can aid us in future design of new fluorescent tags.
Elucidating nuclear motions in a plant sunscreen during photoisomerization through solvent viscosity effects
M. D. Horbury, W.-D. Quan, A. L. Flourat, F. Allais and V. G. Stavros. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2017) 19, 21127-21131 [ref]