Specific heat of melanin at temperatures below 3 K
- 15 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 34 (4) , 2942-2944
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.34.2942
Abstract
The specific heat of synthetic melanin, cooled in vitro, has been measured over the temperature range 0.3-3 K. Below 1 K the specific heat has a magnitude and a temperature dependence similar to that of metmyoglobin and of polymer glasses. A phase transition previously reported near 2 K for dried melanin was not reproduced.
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