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Design and Conception of Photosensitisers

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Photosensitizers in Medicine, Environment, and Security

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This chapter resumes the general strategies and the last progresses in the design of photosensitisers, with chosen examples, many of them being extracted for the last 5 years literature.

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Dumoulin, F. (2011). Design and Conception of Photosensitisers. In: Nyokong, T., Ahsen, V. (eds) Photosensitizers in Medicine, Environment, and Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3872-2_1

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