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A bright future for sunscreens

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Understanding the intrinsic properties of molecules that protect our skin from the harmful rays of the Sun is critical to developing more efficacious sunscreen products. Now, gas-phase spectroscopy and microsolvation studies of model ultraviolet-filter molecules have shown that they may provide a route to developing improved sunscreens.

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Figure 1: A schematic of a proposed kinetic scheme for methyl-4-methoxycinnamate (MMC) and MMC–H2O following irradiation with UV-B.

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Stavros, V. A bright future for sunscreens. Nature Chem 6, 955–956 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2084

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