Conjugated Polymer Blend Microspheres for Efficient, Long-Range Light Energy Transfer

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 5543-5549

  Kushida, Soh ^a   Braam, Daniel ^b   Dao, Thang Duy ^c,d   Saito, Hitoshi ^a   Shibasaki, Kosuke ^a   Ishii, Satoshi ^c,d   Nagao, Tadaaki ^c,d   Saeki, Akinori ^e   Kuwabara, Junpei ^a   Kanbara, Takaki ^a   Kijima, Masashi ^a   Lorke, Axel ^b   Yamamoto, Yohei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

conjugated polymer; energy transfer; microsphere; polymer blend; whispering gallery mode

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SELF ASSEMBLY; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

ACCEPTOR ENERGY; BLENDING RATIO; COLOR CHANGES; CONTACT POINTS; DEVICE APPLICATION; MACROSCOPIC PHASE SEPARATION; MISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERIC MICROSPHERE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 84973279064     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b02100     Document Type: Article

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