Structure-property relationship of perylene bisimide macrocycles probed by atomic force microscopy and single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5064-5076

  Lee, Ji Eun ^a   Stepanenko, Vladimir ^b   Yang, Jaesung ^a   Yoo, Hyejin ^a   Schlosser, Felix ^b   Bellinger, Daniel ^b   Engels, Bernd ^b   Scheblykin, Ivan G ^c   Würthner, Frank ^b   Kim, Dongho ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

atomic force microscopy; excitation energy transfer; light harvesting system; macrocycles; molecular dynamics simulations; single molecule spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

HIGHLY ORDERED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITES; LIGHT-HARVESTING SYSTEMS; MACROCYCLES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84879643818     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400616u     Document Type: Article

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