TY - JOUR
T1 - Formation of nanostructures of hexaphenylsilole with enhanced color-tunable emissions
AU - Bhongale, Chetan Jagdish
AU - Chang, Chih Wei
AU - Diau, Eric Wei Guang
AU - Hsu, Chain Shu
AU - Dong, Yongqiang
AU - Tang, Ben Zhong
PY - 2006/2/26
Y1 - 2006/2/26
N2 - Nanostructures of 1,1,2,3,4,5-hexaphenylsilole (HPS) of various types were obtained on simple reprecipitation with THF as solvent and water as non-solvent. The formation and evolution of these nanostructures were monitored with scanning electron microscopy. Using picosecond time-correlated single-photon counting, we observed enhanced emission and fluorescence lifetimes at volume fractions 70-90% of added water. We report the first enhanced color-tunable emissions of a conjugated organic compound (HPS) due to the formation of nanoflowers, nanoglobules and microglobules, and provide time scales for those nanostructures and the corresponding intermolecular interactions in the aggregates.
AB - Nanostructures of 1,1,2,3,4,5-hexaphenylsilole (HPS) of various types were obtained on simple reprecipitation with THF as solvent and water as non-solvent. The formation and evolution of these nanostructures were monitored with scanning electron microscopy. Using picosecond time-correlated single-photon counting, we observed enhanced emission and fluorescence lifetimes at volume fractions 70-90% of added water. We report the first enhanced color-tunable emissions of a conjugated organic compound (HPS) due to the formation of nanoflowers, nanoglobules and microglobules, and provide time scales for those nanostructures and the corresponding intermolecular interactions in the aggregates.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.12.017
DO - 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.12.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:32344432791
VL - 419
SP - 444
EP - 449
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
SN - 0009-2614
IS - 4-6
ER -