On-off transition and ultrafast decay of amino acid luminescence driven by modulation of supramolecular packing
Z. A. Arnon, T. Kreiser, B. Yakimov, N. Brown, R. Aizen, S. Shaham-Niv, P. Makam, M. N. Qaisrani, E. Poli, A. Ruggiero, I. Slutsky, A. Hassanali, E. Shirshin, D. Levy, E. Gazit
This study investigates amino acid luminescence in aggregated states, finding that supramolecular packing, not chemical properties, drives visible light emission and reversible optical transitions.
bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2021Biophysics