Organogels resulting from competing self-assembly units in the gelator: Structure, dynamics, and photophysical behavior of gels formed from cholesterol-stilbene and cholesterol-squaraine gelators

Langmuir

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2241-2245

  Geiger, Cristina ^a   Stanescu, Marina ^a   Chen, Liaohai ^a   Whitten, David G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHOLESTEROL; DYES; FLUORESCENCE; GELATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SOLVENTS;

SQUARAINE; STILBENE;

GELS;

EID: 0345669117     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la981386i     Document Type: Article

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