Abstract：
:Eumelanin plays a variety of important physiological roles in human skin. However, its structure and fundamental properties still remain poorly understood. Although the absorbance of eumelanin is broad and reveals little about its structure, a variety of techniques have revealed the presence of a disordered array of chromophores within the melanin compound. In order to examine the fluorescence decay dynamics of these chromophores, time-resolved spectroscopy was applied to solutions of synthetic eumelanin and a melanin-like polymer of N-methyl,5-hydroxy,6-methoxyindole (N-Me-5H6MI). Solutions were excited with 80 fs laser pulses at 355, 370, 390 and 400 nm, and decay time courses were acquired at 20 nm intervals between 400 and 600 nm for each excitation wavelength. Decay profiles for both eumelanin and the polymer exhibited a characteristic multiexponential behavior with decay times between 0.5 and 15 ns, although steady-state spectra for the polymer exhibited only two peaks. The long-decay component in the polymer showed a significant decrease in both amplitude (30-5%) and decay time (14-6 ns) with increasing emission wavelength. In contrast, the amplitude and decay time in melanin increased slightly (10-15% and 7-10 ns, respectively) from 400 to 520 nm emission, at which point they leveled off. These trends were consistent for all excitation wavelengths. These results suggest that the multiexponential behavior of melanin fluorescence is characteristic of each oligomer within the eumelanin compound, and is consistent with the assertion that the diversity of constituents within eumelanin provides it with a robustness in spectral properties.
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Photochem Photobioljournal_title
Photochemistry and photobiologyauthors
Nighswander-Rempel SP,Mahadevan IB,Rubinsztein-Dunlop H,Meredith Pdoi
10.1111/j.1751-1097.2007.00186.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-11-01 00:00:00pages
1449-54issue
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