Reversible fluorescence modulation based on photochromic diarylethene and fluorescent coumarin

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1558-1563

  Sheng, Xiaohai ^a,b   Peng, Aidong ^a   Fu, Hongbing ^a   Yao, Jiannian ^a   Liu, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Wang, Yaobing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; PHOTOCHROMISM; PHOTOISOMERIZATION;

FLUORESCENT COUMARIN; HEXAFLUOROCYCLOPENTENE; PHOTOCHROMIC DIARYLETHENE;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 34347269522     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0199     Document Type: Article

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