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Andrés Guerrero-Martínez1, Yolanda Vida, David Domínguez-Gutiérrez
1Physikalisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Mendelstrasse 7, 48149 Münster, Germany.
Inorganic Chemistry
|September 23, 2008
Abstract:
Ruthenium metallosurfactant forms micelles that show efficient electronic energy-transfer processes in the presence of an analogous iridium complex. Modulation of the process is achieved upon incorporation of these amphiphiles into cetyltrimethylammonium bromide micelles, allowing a tuning of the two emissions.
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