Oligothiophene nanoparticles: Photophysical and electrogenerated chemiluminescence studies

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2035-2038

  Nepomnyashchii, Alexander B ^a   Ono, Robert J ^a   Lyons, Dani M ^a   Sessler, Jonathan L ^a   Bielawski, Christopher W ^a   Bard, Allen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUPS; ALKYL SUBSTITUENT; BATHOCHROMIC SHIFT; DISCRETE SYSTEMS; ELECTROGENERATED CHEMILUMINESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE CHARACTERISTICS; FLUORESCENCE MAXIMA; FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; HEXAMERS; OLIGOTHIOPHENES; ORGANIC NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOPHYSICAL; POOR SOLVENTS; RED SHIFT; SUBSTITUTION PATTERNS; TETRAHYDROFURANS; THIOPHENE OLIGOMERS;

CHEMILUMINESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; OLIGOMERS; THIOPHENE;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

EID: 84864774905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300828r     Document Type: Article

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