Charge transfer reactions in nematic liquid crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3475, Issue , 1998, Pages 102-111

  Wiederrecht, Gary P ^a   Wasielewski, Michael R ^a,b   Galili, Tamar ^c   Levanon, Haim ^c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Charge Transfer; Liquid Crystals; Solvation Dynamics

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DISSOLUTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOLVENTS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

SOLVATION DYNAMICS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0010637079     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.326896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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