Structural basis for the spectroscopy and photophysics of solution-aggregated conjugated polymers

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 197-202

  Menon, Anoop ^a   Galvin, Mary ^a   Walz, Kenneth A ^b   Rothberg, Lewis ^b  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Photophysics; Polymer; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CHROMOPHORES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PHOTOPHYSICS; POLYDISPERSITY;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 1542335498     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2003.09.021     Document Type: Article

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