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Nanostructured Dihexadecyldimethylammonium–Poly(1,4‐phenylene‐ethinylene‐carboxylate): An Ionic Complex with Blue Electroluminescence
Author(s) -
Thünemann Andreas F.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-4095(199902)11:2<127::aid-adma127>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - materials science , electroluminescence , carboxylate , conjugated system , polymer , phenylene , polarization (electrochemistry) , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , composite material , organic chemistry , chemistry , layer (electronics) , engineering
Transferral of the interesting fluorescence properties , seen in solution, of a brittle solid polymer with a conjugated backbone to a material in a more convenient state is shown to be possible. A flexible, mesomorphously structured film is obtained by complexing the brittle polymer with a surfactant, resulting in the title complex. The Figure shows the “herring school texture” of the complex observed by optical polarization microscopy.