Towards a coherent description of the nature of the photogenerated species in the lowest-lying one-photon allowed excited state of isolated conjugated chains

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 85, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 1029-1030

  Cornil, J ^a   Beljonne, D ^a   Bredas J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Poly(phenylenevinylene) and derivatives; Polyacetylene and derivatives; Semiempirical models and model calculations

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYMERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTONS; POLYACETYLENES; VINYL RESINS;

PHOTOGENERATED SPECIES; POLYPHENYLENEVINYLENE;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 0031069547     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0379-6779(97)80140-3     Document Type: Article

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