Shear-triggered crystallization and light emission of a thermally stable organic supercooled liquid

ACS Central Science

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 94-102

  Chung, Kyeongwoon ^a   Kwon, Min Sang ^a   Leung, Brendan M ^a   Wong Foy, Antek G ^a   Kim, Min Su ^b   Kim, Jeongyong ^a,c   Takayama, Shuichi ^a   Gierschner, Johannes ^d   Matzger, Adam J ^a   Kim, Jinsang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ALIPHATIC SIDE CHAIN; AROMATIC INTERACTIONS; CRYSTALLINE ORGANIC MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE PHASE; DIKETOPYRROLOPYRROLES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

SUPERCOOLING;

EID: 84978118311     PISSN: 23747943     EISSN: 23747951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5b00091     Document Type: Article

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