White-emitting conjugated polymer nanoparticles with cross-linked shell for mechanical stability and controllable photometric properties in color-conversion LED applications

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2483-2492

  Park, Eun Ju ^a   Erdem, Talha ^a   Ibrahimova, Vüsala ^a   Nizamoglu, Sedat ^a   Demir, Hilmi V ^a   Tuncel, Dönüs ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

color conversion; conjugated polymer nanoparticles; cross linked shell; white light emission

Indexed keywords

AZIDE GROUP; BEFORE AND AFTER; COLOR CONVERSIONS; COLOR QUALITY; CONJUGATED POLYMER NANOPARTICLES; CROSS-LINKED SHELLS; DIFFERENT SIZES; DROP-CASTING; EMITTING POLYMERS; IMAGING DATA; MECHANICALLY STABLE; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTOMETRIC PROPERTIES; POLYFLUORENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER NANOPARTICLES; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; REACTIVE SPECIES; REPRECIPITATION METHODS; SEM; SHELL FORMATION; STATE BEHAVIOR; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENT SPECTROSCOPY; TUNABLE EMISSIONS; UV LIGHT; UV TREATMENT; WATER DISPERSIBLE; WHITE LIGHT EMISSION; WHITE-LIGHT GENERATION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CASTING; COLOR; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT EMISSION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL STABILITY; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 79955416659     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn103598q     Document Type: Article

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