Interactions of Melanin with Electromagnetic Radiation: From Fundamentals to Applications

W Xie, A Dhinojwala, NC Gianneschi… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
radiation have mostly focused on a small radiation range (nonionizing radiation or ionizing
radiation) or on a specific melanin … from the enhanced electron transfer of melanin in NADH …

Exposure to ionizing radiation affects the growth of ectomycorrhizal fungi and induces increased melanin production and increased capacities of reactive oxygen …

D Kothamasi, J Wannijn, M Van Hees, R Nauts… - … Radioactivity, 2019 - Elsevier
… of EM fungi to ionizing radiation will also increase the resistance of … melanin and ROS
scavenging enzymes such as catalase and SOD in the response of EM fungi to ionizing radiation. …

Melanin as an energy transducer and a radioprotector in black fungi

ME Malo, E Dadachova - Fungi in extreme environments: ecological role …, 2019 - Springer
… on the functional response of melanin to ionizing radiation and the ways this functional …
Evidence for the role of melanin in enhanced survival can be found not just in its resistant to …

Influence of eumelanin and gamma irradiation on ZnO nanocomposite properties

BA El-Badry, N Madkhali, AM Deghady - Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
… , structural, optical, and electrical properties of ZnO … Finally, neuromelanin differs from these
two classes of melanin and is … The ionizing radiation techniques can change the properties

Microbial melanin physiology under stress conditions and gamma radiation protection studies

HA El-Bialy, MS El-Gamal, MA Elsayed… - Radiation Physics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
… and electronic properties, thin films of synthetic melanin have … The present study aims to
enhance the melanin production … for the most penetrating ionizing radiation; gamma rays. A semi …

A biomimetic approach to shielding from ionizing radiation: The case of melanized fungi

T Vasileiou, L Summerer - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… [10], after demonstrating that ionizing radiation changes the electronic properties of melanin
and … This arrangement has been suggested to increase the scattering of incident photons …

Exploring the optical properties of metal-modified melanin following ultraviolet irradiation: An experimental and theoretical study using density functional theory

N Madkhali, S Algessair - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
… range of 4.4–4.6 electron volts, clearly indicating enhanced structural properties in the
presence of metals. In this study, we aspire to investigate the ability to modify the absorption …

Study of the Effect of Gamma Rays on the Melanin Physical Properties and Its Release from Liposomes

SA Abd El-Azeem, AM Alajmi - Arabian Journal for Science and …, 2024 - Springer
Melanin reduces the clastogenic effects of ionizing radiation in human and mouse somatic
cells and changes … an increase in melanin aggregates in the media to protect the system from …

Radical-enriched artificial melanin

W Cao, AJ Mantanona, H Mao, NC McCallum… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… is the presence of stable persistent radicals, which has been reported to relate to ionizing
radiation protection, including X-rays and gamma rays. In this work, we aimed to increase the …

Understanding the way eumelanin works: A unique example of properties and skills driven by molecular heterogeneity

ML Terranova, E Tamburri - Polymer, 2021 - Elsevier
electrical features of the pigment highlighted how in … indicated radiations-induced modifications
of the melanin electronic … these changes/modifications, when ionizing radiations interact …