Selective wrapping and supramolecular structures of polyfluorene-carbon nanotube hybrids

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3993-3999

  Gao, Jia ^a   Loi, Maria Antonietta ^a   De Carvalho, Elton José Figueiredo ^b   Dos Santos, Maria Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube wrapping; Molecular dynamics; Photoluminescence; Polyfluorene

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL ANGLES; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; HELICAL CONFORMATION; HELICAL STRUCTURES; MINIMAL EFFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOTUBE AXIS; NEAR INFRARED; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POLYFLUORENES; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CHEMICAL; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; TOLUENE SOLUTION; VISIBLE REGION; VISIBLE SPECTRAL REGIONS;

CHLORINE; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TOLUENE;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; FLUORINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORINE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 80051491320     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200564n     Document Type: Article

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