Suppressing molecular motions for enhanced roomerature phosphorescence of metal-free organic materials

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kwon, Min Sang ^a   Yu, Youngchang ^a   Coburn, Caleb ^a   Phillips, Andrew W ^a   Chung, Kyeongwoon ^a   Shanker, Apoorv ^a   Jung, Jaehun ^a   Kim, Gunho ^a   Pipe, Kevin ^a   Forrest, Stephen R ^a   Youk, Ji Ho ^a,b   Gierschner, Johannes ^c   Kim, Jinsang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; CALCIUM; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HEAVY METAL; METAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMER; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CLICK CHEMISTRY; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; DIELS ALDER REACTION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOTION; PHOSPHORESCENCE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM YIELD; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

ALNUS;

EID: 84948754364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9947     Document Type: Article

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