Reduction in Aggregation and Energy Transfer of Quantum Dots Incorporated in Polystyrene Beads by Kinetic Entrapment due to Cross-Linking during Polymerization

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3167-3179

  Vaidya, Shyam V ^a,b   Couzis, Alex ^a   Maldarelli, Charles ^a  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; CHAINS; CROSSLINKING; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EMULSIFICATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTROPY; NANOCRYSTALS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STYRENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXTENT OF CROSS-LINKING; FLUORESCENT NANOCRYSTALS; POLYSTYRENE BEADS; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-BEADS; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SUSPENSION POLYMERIZATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; QUANTUM DOT;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERIZATION;

ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84924943506     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la503251s     Document Type: Article

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