Polyelectrolyte complexes of a cationic all conjugated fluorene-thiophene diblock copolymer with aqueous DNA

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3231-3241

  Knaapila, Matti ^a   Costa, Telma ^b   Garamus, Vasil M ^c   Kraft, Mario ^d   Drechsler, Markus ^e   Scherf, Ullrich ^d   Burrows, Hugh D ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; CHAINS; COLORIMETRY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYELECTROLYTES; THIOPHENE;

ABSORPTION AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; AGGREGATE STRUCTURES; CHARGE NEUTRALIZATION; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; LONG-BRANCHED CHAINS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CHAINS; POLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEXES; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION;

DNA;

BROMIDE; CATION; DNA; FLUORENE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; WATER;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BROMIDES; CATIONS; COLOR; DNA; FLUORENES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMERS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SOLUTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THIOPHENES; WATER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84923347442     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5110032     Document Type: Article

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