Not exact matches
The fluorescence
lifetime of the donor molecule will become shorter — from 3
nanosecond to, perhaps, 2.5
nanoseconds.
QDs are small, bright, photo - stable materials that possess
nanosecond fluorescence
lifetimes.
Besides, there are orders of magnitude more elastic collisions than inelastic, so in fact the
lifetime of an excited CO2 molecule before an inelastic collision is much longer than the one
nanosecond average time between elastic collision.
The time interval between molecular colliwsions is a few
nanoseconds; but the
lifetimes of the excited states, can be microseconds to milliseconds; so the energy is lost in collisions, before the molecule gets a chance to re-radiate.