Spontaneous formation of left- and right-handed cholesterically ordered domains in an enantiopure chiral polyfluorene film

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1359-1362

  Savoini, Matteo ^a   Biagioni, Paolo ^a   Meskers, Stefan C J ^b   Duò, Lamberto ^a   Hecht, Bert ^c   Finazzi, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENANTIOPURE; ORDERED DOMAINS; POLYFLUORENE FILMS; SIDE-CHAINS; SPONTANEOUS FORMATION;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

DICHROISM;

EID: 79959388515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200524m     Document Type: Article

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