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Advances in Physical Chemistry
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 962594, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/962594
Research Article

Fluorescence Quenching by Reversible Charge Separation Followed by Ions Recombination and Their Separation Suppressed by Coulomb Attraction

A. I. Burshtein1 and A. B. Doktorov2

1Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
2Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, RAN, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia

Received 9 April 2012; Accepted 17 June 2012

Academic Editor: Chaoyuan Zhu

Copyright © 2012 A. I. Burshtein and A. B. Doktorov. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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