Unmasking bulk exciton traps and interchain electronic interactions with single conjugated polymer aggregates

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 523-529

  Traub, Matthew C ^a   Vogelsang, Jan ^a   Plunkett, Kyle N ^b   Nuckolls, Colin ^b   Barbara, Paul F ^a   Vanden Bout, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

conjugated polymers; organic electronics; photoluminescence; self assembly; structure property relationships

Indexed keywords

BATHOCHROMIC SHIFT; BUILDING BLOCKES; BULK ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; CHAIN SEGMENTS; CONTROL PROPERTIES; CONTROLLED SIZE; COUPLING INTERACTION; ELECTRONIC EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; EXCITON TRAPS; FILM PROPERTIES; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; INTERCHAIN COUPLING; INTERCHAIN INTERACTIONS; LOW ENERGIES; MEH-PPV; MULTIPLE CHAINS; NANO DOMAIN; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; POLARIZATION ANISOTROPY; SINGLE CHAINS; SINGLE MOLECULE MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE-CHAIN LEVEL; SOLVENT VAPORS; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; ANISOTROPY; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYMER FILMS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856156660     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203860u     Document Type: Article

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