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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2025

Anomalous Water Fluorescence Induced by Solutes.

Anna Maria Villa, Jessica Di Paola, Diletta Ami, Luca De Gioia, Antonino Natalello, Luca Bertini

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Anna Maria VillaDepartment of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milan, Italy.
Jessica Di PaolaDepartment of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milan, Italy.
Diletta AmiDepartment of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milan, Italy.
Luca De GioiaDepartment of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milan, Italy.
Antonino NatalelloDepartment of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1489-272X
Luca BertiniDepartment of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3402-0846

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The origin of recently reported anomalous fluorescence emissions from aqueous solutions of nonaromatic solutes remains elusive. To determine whether the solute nature influences the fluorescence characteristics and to identify a potential common mechanism, we measured the fluorescence spectra of 21 different solutions. We observed similar emission characteristics across all samples, suggesting that the solute nature plays a minimal role in the emission mechanism. Using time-dependent density functional theory on large water, NaCl/water, and glycerol/water clusters, we attributed the anomalous emission to the decay of charge-transfer-to-solvent excitations (CTTS) which populate a diradical zwitterionic excited state localized at hydrogen-bond network defects. The Arrhenius-like plots for NaCl and glycerol solutions revealed that the S

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