Restricted Intramolecular Rotations: A Mechanism for Aggregation-Induced Emission

Aggregation-Induced Emission: Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn 1-2, Issue , 2013, Pages 307-322

  Chen, Junwu ^a   Tang, Ben Zhong ^a,b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

2,3,4,5 tetraphenylsilole; Aggregation induced emission; Chemical restriction of rotations; Physical restrictions of rotation; Silole containing polymers

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); POLYMERS; ROTATION; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

2 ,3 ,4 ,5-TETRAPHENYLSILOLE; AGGREGATION-INDUCED EMISSIONS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); PHYSICAL RESTRICTION; RESTRICTED INTRAMOLECULAR ROTATION; SILOLE-CONTAINING POLYMERS; SOLID STATE EMITTERS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 84979653776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118735183.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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