Nonvolatile liquid anthracenes for facile full-colour luminescence tuning at single blue-light excitation

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Babu, Sukumaran Santhosh ^a   Hollamby, Martin J ^a   Aimi, Junko ^a   Ozawa, Hiroaki ^a   Saeki, Akinori ^b   Seki, Shu ^b   Kobayashi, Kenji ^c   Hagiwara, Keita ^d   Yoshizawa, Michito ^d   Möhwald, Helmuth ^e   Nakanishi, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACENE DERIVATIVE; DYE;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; DYE; ENERGY FLUX; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLOR; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION; LIQUID; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD; STEREOSPECIFICITY; SYNTHESIS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84884509817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2969     Document Type: Article

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