Universality in the photophysics of π-conjugated polymers and single-walled carbon nanotubes

Ultrafast Dynamics and Laser Action of Organic Semiconductors

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 77-116

  Mazumdar, Sumit ^a   Wang, Zhendong ^a   Zhao, Hongbo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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