Singlet oxygen phosphorescence photosensitized in nano-aggregates of C60 buckminsterfullerene is insensitive to solvent and quenchers and strongly red-shifted indicating highly polarizable interior

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 458, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 157-160

  Bilski, Piotr ^a   Zhao, Baozhong ^a   Chignell, Colin F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXICITY; FULLERENES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLARIZATION;

PHOSPHORESCENCE SPECTRA; PHOTOCYTOTOXICITY; SINGLET OXYGEN;

OXYGEN;

EID: 44449087979     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.04.085     Document Type: Article

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