Mechanisms of light energy harvesting in dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers

Polymers

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2053-2077

  Bradshaw, David S ^a   Andrews, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromophore arrays; Dendrimers; Energy harvesting; Light matter interactions; Nonlinear optics; Photochemistry; Photons; Photophysics

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CHROMOPHORE; CHROMOPHORE ARRAY; ELECTRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; ENERGY DEVICES; HYPERBRANCHED POLYMERS; LIGHT ENERGY; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PHOTON CAPTURE; PHOTOPHYSICS; POLYMER UNITS;

CHROMOPHORES; ENERGY HARVESTING; LIGHT; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTONS;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 84861790873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym3042053     Document Type: Review

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