Photochemical upconversion: The primacy of kinetics

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 4062-4072

  Schmidt, Timothy W ^a   Castellano, Felix N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR ENERGY;

BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; ENERGY FORMS; INTENSIVE RESEARCH; LOW ENERGY LIGHT; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION PROCESS;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 84912528809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz501799m     Document Type: Review

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