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This month sees the following articles in PPS that are in the top ten most accessed:-

Engineered photoreceptors as novel optogenetic tools 
Andreas Möglich and Keith Moffat 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1286-1300, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00167H, Perspective 

Singlet oxygen: there is still something new under the sun, and it is better than ever 
Peter R. Ogilby 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1543-1560, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00213E, Perspective 

Light relief: photochemistry and medicine 
David Phillips 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1589-1596, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00237B, Perspective 

Light-powered molecular devices and machines 
Paola Ceroni, Alberto Credi, Margherita Venturi and Vincenzo Balzani 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1561-1573, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00233J, Perspective 

Vertebrate ancient opsin and melanopsin: divergent irradiance detectors 
Wayne L. Davies, Mark W. Hankins and Russell G. Foster 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1444-1457, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00203H, Perspective 

Human safety review of nano titanium dioxide and zinc oxide 
Karsten Schilling, Bobbie Bradford, Dominique Castelli, Eric Dufour, J. Frank Nash, Wolfgang Pape, Stefan Schulte, Ian Tooley, Jeroen van den Bosch and Florian Schellauf 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 495-509, DOI: 10.1039/B9PP00180H, Perspective 

Photochromism of diarylethene single molecules and single crystals 
Masahiro Irie 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1535-1542 DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00251H, Perspective 

Human ocular carotenoid-binding proteins 
Binxing Li, Preejith Vachali and Paul S. Bernstein 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1418-1425, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00126K, Perspective 

What site-directed labeling studies tell us about the mechanism of rhodopsin activation and G-protein binding 
David L. Farrens 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1466-1474, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00283F, Perspective 

Supramolecular architecture of tetrathiafulvalene-bridged bis(β-cyclodextrin) with porphyrin and its electron transfer behaviors 
Ying-Ming Zhang, Yong Chen, Rui-Jie Zhuang and Yu Liu 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00224K, Paper 

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This month sees the following articles in PPS that are in the top ten most accessed:-

Engineered photoreceptors as novel optogenetic tools 
Andreas Möglich and Keith Moffat 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1286-1300, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00167H, Perspective  

Vertebrate ancient opsin and melanopsin: divergent irradiance detectors 
Wayne L. Davies, Mark W. Hankins and Russell G. Foster 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1444-1457, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00203H, Perspective  

Light-induced body color change in developing zebrafish 
Tomoya Shiraki, Daisuke Kojima and Yoshitaka Fukada 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1498-1504, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00199F, Paper  

What site-directed labeling studies tell us about the mechanism of rhodopsin activation and G-protein binding 
David L. Farrens 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1466-1474, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00283F, Perspective 

Human safety review of “nano” titanium dioxide and zinc oxide 
Karsten Schilling, Bobbie Bradford, Dominique Castelli, Eric Dufour, J. Frank Nash, Wolfgang Pape, Stefan Schulte, Ian Tooley, Jeroen van den Bosch and Florian Schellauf 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 495-509, DOI: 10.1039/B9PP00180H, Perspective  

Fluorescent proteins as light-inducible photochemical partners 
Konstantin A. Lukyanov, Ekaterina O. Serebrovskaya, Sergey Lukyanov and Dmitriy M. Chudakov 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1301-1306, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00114G, Perspective  

Laboratory apparatus for the accurate, facile and rapid determination of visible light photoreaction quantum yields 
Uwe Megerle, Robert Lechner, Burkhard König and Eberhard Riedle 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1400-1406, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00195C, Technical Note  

Diffusion pathways of oxygen species in the phototoxic fluorescent protein KillerRed 
Arijit Roy, Philippe Carpentier, Dominique Bourgeois and Martin Field 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1342-1350, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00141D, Paper  

Blue light induced A2E oxidation in rat eyes – experimental animal model of dry AMD 
A. R. Wielgus, R. J. Collier, E. Martin, F. B. Lih, K. B. Tomer, C. F. Chignell and J. E. Roberts 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1505-1512, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00133C, Paper  

A photoswitchable DNA-binding protein based on a truncated GCN4-photoactive yellow protein chimera 
Stacy-Anne Morgan and G. Andrew Woolley 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1320-1326, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00214C, Paper  

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This month sees the following articles in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences that are in the top ten most accessed:-

Highly emissive metal organic framework composites by host-guest chemistry 
Maike Müller, André Devaux, Cheng-Han Yang, Luisa De Cola and Roland A. Fischer 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 846-853, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00070A

Iridium(iii) luminophores as energy donors for sensitised emission from lanthanides in the visible and near-infrared regions 
Nicholas M. Tart, Daniel Sykes, Igor Sazanovich, Ian S. Tidmarsh and Michael D. Ward 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 886-889, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00011F

Novel photosensitisers derived from pyropheophorbide-a: uptake by cells and photodynamic efficiency in vitro 
Ioanna Stamati, Marina K. Kuimova, Mattia Lion, Gokhan Yahioglu, David Phillips and Mahendra P. Deonarain 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1033-1041, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00038H  

Probing the interactions between disulfide-based ligands and gold nanoparticles using a functionalised fluorescent perylene-monoimide dye 
Julien R. G. Navarro, Marcel Plugge, Matthieu Loumaigne, Angel Sanchez-Gonzalez, Benedetta Mennucci, Anne Débarre, Albert M. Brouwer and Martinus H. V. Werts 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1042-1054, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00063A

A photo- and electrochemically-active porphyrin-fullerene dyad electropolymer 
Miguel Gervaldo, Paul A. Liddell, Gerdenis Kodis, Bradley J. Brennan, Christopher R. Johnson, James W. Bridgewater, Ana L. Moore, Thomas A. Moore and Devens Gust 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 890-900, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00013B

Human Safety Review of “Nano” Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide 
Karsten Schilling, Bobbie Bradford, Dominique Castelli, Eric Dufour, J. Frank Nash, Wolfgang Pape, Stefan Schulte, Ian Tooley, Jeroen van den Bosch and Florian Schellauf 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 495-509, DOI: 10.1039/B9PP00180H  

Exploring the effects of solvent polarity on the rate of Förster-type electronic energy transfer in a closely-spaced molecular dyad  
Anthony Harriman and Raymond Ziessel 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 960-967, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00062K

Transduction of excited state energy between covalently linked porphyrins and phthalocyanines 
Anita Hausmann, Ana R. M. Soares, M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz, Maria G. P. M. S. Neves, Augusto C. Tomé, José A. S. Cavaleiro, Tomas Torres and Dirk M. Guldi 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1027-1032, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00060D

Generalized solvent scales as a tool for investigating solvent dependence of spectroscopic and kinetic parameters. Application to fluorescent BODIPY dyes 
Aleksander Filarowski, Małgorzata Kluba, Katarzyna Cieślik-Boczula, Aleksander Koll, Andrzej Kochel, Lesley Pandey, Wim M. De Borggraeve, Mark Van der Auweraer, Javier Catalán and Noël Boens 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 996-1008, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00035C

Distance and orientation dependence of photoinduced electron transfer through twisted, bent and helical bridges: a Karplus relation for charge transfer interaction 
René M. Williams 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1018-1026, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00050G 

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