Sub-nanometre sized metal clusters: from synthetic challenges to the unique property discoveries

Y Lu, W Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Sub-nanometre sized metal clusters, with dimensions between metal atoms and
nanoparticles, have attracted more and more attention due to their unique electronic …

Conjugated polymers as molecular materials: How chain conformation and film morphology influence energy transfer and interchain interactions

BJ Schwartz - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The electronic structure of conjugated polymers is of current interest because of
the wide range of potential applications for such materials in optoelectronic devices. It is …

Multidimensional femtosecond correlation spectroscopies of electronic and vibrational excitations

S Mukamel - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2000 - annualreviews.org
Femtosecond visible and infrared analogues of multiple-pulse nuclear magnetic resonance
techniques provide novel snapshot probes into the structure and electronic and vibrational …

Individual water-soluble dendrimer-encapsulated silver nanodot fluorescence

J Zheng, RM Dickson - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2002 - ACS Publications
Easily observed on the single molecule level, highly fluorescent and photostable silver
nanoclusters have been photochemically prepared within poly (amidoamine) dendrimer …

Dynamic self-assembly of magnetized, millimetre-sized objects rotating at a liquid–air interface

BA Grzybowski, HA Stone, GM Whitesides - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
Spontaneous pattern formation by self-assembly is of long-standing,, and continuing
interest, not only for its aesthetic appeal,, but also for its fundamental,,,,,,,,,, and technological …

Collapse of stiff conjugated polymers with chemical defects into ordered, cylindrical conformations

D Hu, J Yu, K Wong, B Bagchi, PJ Rossky, PF Barbara - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
The optical, electronic and mechanical properties of synthetic and biological materials
consisting of polymer chains depend sensitively on the conformation adopted by these …

Single-molecule spectroscopy of conjugated polymers

PF Barbara, AJ Gesquiere, SJ Park… - Accounts of chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The molecular structure, photochemistry, and device physics of conjugated polymers have
been investigated by single-molecule spectroscopy (SMS), using the unique ability of this …

Unmasking Electronic Energy Transfer of Conjugated Polymers by Suppression of O2 Quenching

J Yu, D Hu, PF Barbara - Science, 2000 - science.org
The photochemistry of poly [2-methoxy, 5-(2′-ethyl-hexyloxy)-p-phenylene-vinylene](MEH-
PPV) has been found to be highly dependent on the presence of O2, which increases singlet …

Single molecule nanoparticles of the conjugated polymer MEH− PPV, preparation and characterization by near-field scanning optical microscopy

C Szymanski, C Wu, J Hooper… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
We have developed a straightforward method for producing a stable, aqueous suspension
of hydrophobic, fluorescent π-conjugated polymer nanoparticles consisting primarily of …

Single chain spectroscopy of conformational dependence of conjugated polymer photophysics

T Huser, M Yan, LJ Rothberg - Proceedings of the National …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
Single molecule confocal fluorescence microscopy was used to perform photoluminescence
spectroscopy on single, isolated molecules of the conjugated polymer poly [2-methoxy, 5 …