Alignment of N@C60 derivatives in a liquid crystal matrix

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5925-5931

  Liu, Guoquan ^a,b   Gimenez Lopez, Maria Del Carmen ^c   Jevric, Martyn ^a   Khlobystov, Andrei N ^c   Briggs, G Andrew D ^a   Porfyrakis, Kyriakos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

DEGREE OF ORIENTATION; FULLEROPYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVES; FULLEROPYRROLIDINES; LIQUID CRYSTAL MATRIX; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; NITROXIDE RADICALS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; ZERO-FIELD SPLITTING PARAMETERS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

AMINE OXIDE; FULLERENE C60; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; TEMPO;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DIFFUSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL;

CYCLIC N-OXIDES; DIFFUSION; FULLERENES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NITROGEN;

EID: 84878039521     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp401582j     Document Type: Article

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