New insights in the study of pyrene excimer fluorescence to characterize macromolecules and their supramolecular assemblies in solution

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 6527-6538

  Duhamel, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; ASSOCIATIVE POLYMERS; EXCIMER FLUORESCENCE; EXCIMER FORMATION; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; POLY (LGLUTAMIC ACID); PYRENE CHROMOPHORES; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES; VINYL POLYMER;

AMINO ACIDS; CHROMOPHORES; DENDRIMERS; FLUORESCENCE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

MACROMOLECULES;

EID: 84860159772     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la2047646     Document Type: Article

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