Uniform exciton fluorescence from individual molecular nanotubes immobilized on solid substrates

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 658-663

  Eisele, Dörthe M ^a   Knoester, Jasper ^b   Kirstein, Stefan ^a   Rabe, Jürgen P ^a   Vanden Bout, David A ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; DICHROISM; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; NANOTUBES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SUBSTRATES; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; TOPOGRAPHY; YARN;

CONJUGATED MOLECULES; ENERGY TRANSPORT; EXCITON TRANSITIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; MOLECULAR NANOTUBES; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; QUASI-ONE DIMENSIONAL; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

3,3' BIS(2 SULPHOPROPYL) 5,5',6,6' TETRACHLORO 1,1' DIOCTYLBENZIMIDACARBOCYANINE; CYANINE DYE; DOUBLE WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOTUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMOBILIZATION; MICROSCOPY; POLARIMETRY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350680444     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.227     Document Type: Article

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