Astaxanthin (AX), a lipid-soluble pigment belonging to the xanthophyll carotenoids family,
has recently garnered significant attention due to its unique physical properties, biochemical …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are continuously generated as a by‐product of normal
aerobic metabolism. Elevated ROS formation leads to potential damage of biological …

Singlet exciton fission allows the fast and efficient generation of two spin triplet states from
one photoexcited singlet. It has the potential to improve organic photovoltaics, enabling …

To avoid photodamage plants regulate the amount of excitation energy in the membrane at
the level of the light-harvesting complexes (LHCs). It has been proposed that the energy …

Carotenoids are very effectively delivered by albumin to adipocytes. The uptake of
carotenoids to the cells occurs in the form of self-aggregates that localize in the vicinity of the …

Carotenoids tend to form supramolecular aggregates via non‐covalent interactions where
the chirality of individual molecules is amplified to the macroscopic level. We show that this …

Molecular triplet excitons produced through singlet fission (SF) usually have shorter triplet
lifetimes due to exciton–exciton recombination and relaxation pathways, thereby resulting in …

We have investigated the photophysics of aggregated lutein/violaxanthin in daffodil
chromoplasts. We reveal the presence of three carotenoid aggregate species, the main one …

Astaxanthin is a natural liposoluble ketocarotenoid with various biological activities.
Hydrophobic astaxanthin with C 2h symmetry can self-assembly form H-type aggregates …

Neurosporaxanthin (NX) is a carboxylic carotenoid produced by some filamentous fungi,
including species of the genera Neurospora and Fusarium. NX biosynthetic genes and their …