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[S4-06-CL] Charge transfer reactions in sub-50 fs timescales promote the photoprotection mechanism in eumelanin-like materials

*Vasilis Petropoulos¹, Alexandra Mavridi Printezi², Arianna Menichetti², Piotr Kabacinski¹, Nathan G. Gianneschi³, Marco Montalti², Margherita Maiuri¹, Giulio Cerullo¹ (1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano (Italy), 2. Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 2, Bologna 40126 (Italy), 3. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 (United States of America))

Keywords:eumelanin, ultrafast spectroscopy, charge transfer