Emission Colour Tuning in Semiconducting Polymer Nanotubes by Energy Transfer to Organo‐ Lanthanide Dopants

Abstract

Tuning of emission chromaticity in poly(N-vinylcarbazole) nanotubes by efficient energy transfer to luminescent Eu(dbm)3(Phen) organo-lanthanide chelate dopants is demonstrated. Nanotubes are synthesized by solution assisted template wetting. Under optical excitation, undoped tubes luminesce in the blue while doped tubes exhibit red europium ion emission with good color purity at the single nanotube level. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2089/2007/c2585_s.pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.