Amplified fluorescence quenching in high ionic strength media

Soft Matter

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1381-1387

  George, Wayne N ^a   Giles, Mark ^b   McCulloch, Iain ^b   De Mello, John C ^a   Steinke, Joachim H G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Merck Chemicals ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DERIVATIVES; FLUORESCENCE; IONIC STRENGTH; NONIONIC SURFACTANTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; HIGH IONIC STRENGTH MEDIA; IONIC CONJUGATED POLYMERS; STERN-VOLMER COEFFICIENTS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 35348819277     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b709879k     Document Type: Article

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