Radical polymerization tracked by single molecule spectroscopy

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 783-787

  Wöll, Dominik ^a   Uji i, Hiroshi ^a   Schnitzler, Tobias ^b   Hotta, Jun Ichi ^a   Dedecker, Peter ^a   Herrmann, Andreas ^b   De Schryver, Frans C ^a   Müllen, Klaus ^b   Hofkens, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; Polymerization; Styrene; Wide field microscopy

Indexed keywords

DYES; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; STYRENE;

FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR MOTION; SINGLE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; WIDE-FIELD MICROSCOPY;

AMIDES;

EID: 38349078784     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200704196     Document Type: Article

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