Robust excitons inhabit soft supramolecular nanotubes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 33, 2014, Pages E3367-E3375

  Eisele, Dörthe M ^a   Arias, Dylan H ^a   Fu, Xiaofeng ^b   Bloemsma, Erik A ^c   Steiner, Colby P ^a   Jensen, Russell A ^a   Rebentrost, Patrick ^d   Eisele, Holger ^e   Tokmakoff, Andrei ^f   Lloyd, Seth ^d   Nelson, Keith A ^a   Nicastro, Daniela ^b   Knoester, Jasper ^c   Bawendi, Moungi G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Exciton theory; Light harvesting antennae systems; Photosynthesis; Self assembled excitonic nanoscale systems; Supramolecular assembly

Indexed keywords

CYANINE DYE; DOUBLE WALLED NANOTUBE; CARBOCYANINE; COLORING AGENT; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; EXCITON THEORY; LIGHT-HARVESTING ANTENNAE SYSTEMS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SELF-ASSEMBLED EXCITONIC NANOSCALE SYSTEMS; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EXCITON THEORY; LIGHT-HARVESTING ANTENNAE SYSTEMS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SELF-ASSEMBLED EXCITONIC NANOSCALE SYSTEMS; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY;

CARBOCYANINES; COLORING AGENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES;

EID: 84908101139     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1408342111     Document Type: Article

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