Transport of triplet excitons along continuous 100 nm polyfluorene chains

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 119, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7210-7218

  Li, Xiang ^a   Bird, Matthew ^a   Mauro, Gina ^a   Asaoka, Sadayuki ^b   Cook, Andrew R ^a   Chen, Hung Cheng ^a,c   Miller, John R ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; DEFECTS; DIHEDRAL ANGLE; EXCITONS; KETONES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; RATE CONSTANTS;

ANTHRAQUINONE (AQ); CONJUGATED CHAIN; ELECTRON DONORS; POLYMER REPEAT UNITS; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; SINGLET EXCITONS; TRANSFER REACTION; TRIPLET EXCITONS;

CHAINS;

ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; NAPHTHALIMIDE DERIVATIVE; POLY(2,7-(9,9-DIHEXYL)FLUORENE);

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANTHRAQUINONES; FLUORENES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NAPHTHALIMIDES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84934986303     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp509396s     Document Type: Article

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