Electronic structure of pyridine-based polymers

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 9214-9226

  Blatchford, J W ^a   Gustafson, T L ^a   Epstein, A J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BAND STRUCTURE; CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OLIGOMERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BOND LENGTHS; CHARGE CONJUGATION SYMMETRY; INTERMEDIATE NEGLECT OF DIFFERENTIAL OVERLAP; NONBONDING ORBITALS; POLARON; POLYPYRIDINE; POLYPYRIDYL VINYLENE; SINGLE EXCITATION CONJUGATION INTERACTION;

AROMATIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0030283562     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.472726     Document Type: Article

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