Conjugated polyelectrolyte dendrimers: Aggregation, photophysics, and amplified quenching

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 16679-16691

  Feng, Fude ^a   Lee, Seoung Ho ^a   Cho, Sung Won ^a   Kömürlü, Sevnur ^a   McCarley, Tracy D ^b   Roitberg, Adrian ^a   Kleiman, Valeria D ^a   Schanze, Kirk S ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION AND FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; BLUE FLUORESCENCE; CHROMOPHORE-CHROMOPHORE INTERACTION; CONJUGATED POLYELECTROLYTES; DICATIONS; DILUTE SOLUTION; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; GENERATION NUMBERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MONODISPERSE MACROMOLECULES; PHOTOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTOPHYSICAL STUDIES; PHOTOPHYSICS; POLAR ORGANIC SOLVENTS; QUENCHING CONSTANT; REPEAT UNIT STRUCTURES; SODIUM CARBOXYLATE; STERN-VOLMER; THIRD GENERATION; THREE GENERATIONS;

CARBOXYLATION; DENDRIMERS; DIMERS; DYES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYELECTROLYTES; QUANTUM YIELD; QUENCHING; SODIUM; WATER ABSORPTION;

CHROMOPHORES;

EID: 84870551951     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la303641m     Document Type: Article

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