Site-selective fluorescence spectroscopy of conjugated polymers and oligomers

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 173-182

  Bässler, Heinz ^a   Schweitzer, Bernd ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; POLYMER;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHROMATOPHORE; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; REVIEW; SPECTRUM; VIBRATION;

EID: 0038490954     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar960228k     Document Type: Review

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