Colour-tunable fluorescent multiblock micelles

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hudson, Zachary M ^a   Lunn, David J ^a   Winnik, Mitchell A ^b   Manners, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; NANOMATERIAL;

COLOR; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMER; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; COLOUR TUNABLE FLUORESCENT MULTIBLOCK MICELLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MICELLE; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84896789721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4372     Document Type: Article

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