New Zealand researchers use world-first technology to discover how melanin protects skin from UV radiation
Source: News Hub, October 2022
A maze of mirrors and lenses lies inside Victoria University’s laser lab, and it’s unlocking the secrets of the skin.
Victoria University professor of chemistry Justin Hodgkiss, who is also co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute, said the university’s ultrafast optical spectroscopy lab had a specific advantage in carrying out this research.
“As far as we know, no one else in the world has this powerful mix of three different ultrafast spectroscopy methods required to build a picture of eumelanin: ultrafast fluorescence, ultrafast transient absorption and ultrafast Raman spectroscopy."