Assembling a lasing hybrid material with supramolecular polymers and nanocrystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 689-694

  Li, Leiming ^a   Beniash, Elia ^a   Zubarev, Eugene R ^b   Xiang, Wanghua ^c   Rabatic, Bryan M ^b   Zhang, Guzhong ^c   Stupp, Samuel I ^a,b,d  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; ETCHING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ZINC OXIDE;

DENDRON RODCOIL MOLECULES; HYBRID MATERIALS; SUPRAMOLECULAR POLYMERS; ULTRAVIOLET LASING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

POLYMER; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 0142122513     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat983     Document Type: Article

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