Complete suppression of blinking and reduced photobleaching in single MEH-PPV chains in solution

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 2827-2831

  Onda, Suguru ^a   Kobayashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Hatano, Tatsuhiko ^a   Furumaki, Shu ^a   Habuchi, Satoshi ^a   Vacha, Martin ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATED SOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE BLINKING; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; MEH-PPV; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; REVERSIBLE INTERACTIONS; TWO-STATE;

ADSORPTION; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; FLUORESCENCE; POLYSTYRENES; QUENCHING;

PHOTOBLEACHING;

EID: 80455174353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2012512     Document Type: Article

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