Mechanism of wavelength conversion in polystyrene doped with benzoxanthene: Emergence of a complex

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nakamura, Hidehito ^a,b   Shirakawa, Yoshiyuki ^b   Kitamura, Hisashi ^b   Sato, Nobuhiro ^a   Shinji, Osamu ^c   Saito, Katashi ^c   Takahashi, Sentaro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KURARAY CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; XANTHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; SYNTHESIS;

FLUORESCENT DYES; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYSTYRENES; XANTHENES;

EID: 84883294132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02502     Document Type: Article

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