Long-range energy transport in single supramolecular nanofibres at room temperature

Nature

Volumn 523, Issue 7559, 2015, Pages 196-199

  Haedler, Andreas T ^a   Kreger, Klaus ^a   Issac, Abey ^a,c   Wittmann, Bernd ^a   Kivala, Milan ^b   Hammer, Natalie ^b   Köhler, Jürgen ^a   Schmidt, Hans Werner ^a   Hildner, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACENE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; MONOMER; NANOFIBER;

ACETYLENE; ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARBONYL COMPOUND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON; ENERGY FLUX; LIGHT; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NANOPARTICLE; PAH; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEN BOND; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84936947439     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14570     Document Type: Article

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