Optical gating with organic building blocks. A quantitative model for the fluorescence modulation of photochromic perylene bisimide dithienylcyclopentene triads

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Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pärs, Martti ^a   Gradmann, Michael ^a   Gräf, Katja ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a,b   Thelakkat, Mukundan ^a   Köhler, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b Thüringisches Institut für Textil Kunststoff Forschung E V Breitscheidstrasse   (Germany)

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EID: 84896383741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04316     Document Type: Article

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