Light-harvesting polymers: Ultrafast energy transfer in polystyrene-based arrays of π-conjugated chromophores

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 372-378

  Chen, Zhuo ^a   Grumstrup, Erik M ^b   Gilligan, Alexander T ^b   Papanikolas, John M ^b   Schanze, Kirk S ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; LIGHT-HARVESTING POLYMERS; MULTIPLE TIME SCALE; NON-CONJUGATED POLYMERS; REVERSIBLE ADDITION-FRAGMENTATION TRANSFER POLYMERIZATION; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

CHROMOPHORES; COPOLYMERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84892567320     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp411565p     Document Type: Article

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