Abstract

This study is part of a continuing investigation of the factors which affect radiation damage in methylxanthines, which are of immense biomedical importance. In order to gain knowledge regarding charge trapping mechanisms in caffeine (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine) we employed the well-known technique of thermally stimulated luminescence (TSL) and investigated the system in the temperature interval 77 - 300 K.

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