Flexibility of phenylene oligomers revealed by single molecule spectroscopy

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 125, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Fückel, Burkhard ^a   Hinze, Gerald ^a   Diezemann, Gregor ^a   Nolde, Fabian ^b   Müllen, Klaus ^b   Gauss, Jürgen ^a   Basché, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLEXIBILITY; LINEAR GAS PHASE GEOMETRY; PHENYLENE OLIGOMERS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRANSITION DIPOLES;

CHROMOPHORES; FLUORESCENCE; POLARIZATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 33750026176     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2355488     Document Type: Article

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