Sensing nitroaromatic analytes with a bifluorene-cored dendrimer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7418, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cavaye, Hamish ^a   Barcena, Homar ^a   Shaw, Paul E ^a   Burn, Paul L ^a   Lo, Shih Chun ^a   Meredith, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analyte; Dendrimer; Nitroaromatic; Photoluminescence; Sensing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; BIFLUORENE; DENDRONS; DINITROTOLUENES; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; INNER FILTER EFFECTS; NITROAROMATIC; NITROTOLUENE; RAPID RESPONSE; SENSING; STERN-VOLMER ANALYSIS; SURFACE GROUPS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON AFFINITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUENCHING; SENSORS;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 77955704584     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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