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Disentangling Eumelanin "black chromophore": Visible absorption changes as signatures of oxidation state- and aggregation-dependent dynamic interactions in a model water-soluble 5,6-dihydroxyindole polymer
Pezzella, Alessandro,Iadonisi, Alfonso,Valerio, Silvia,Panzella, Lucia,Napolitano, Alessandra,Adinolfi, Matteo,D'Ischia, Marco
, p. 15270 - 15275 (2009)
A fundamental unsettled issue concerning eumelanins, the functional biopolymers of human skin and hair, is why they are black. The experimental difficulty lies in the virtual insolubility of these pigments, causing marked scattering effects and hindering
