Lipophilic Optical Supramolecular Nano Devices in the Aqueous Phase

Heinz Langhals, Tim Pust

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DOI: 10.4236/gsc.2011.11001                

Abstract

Nano micelles of sodium dodecyl sulphate in water were prepared as local lipophilic media for the organisation of interacting chromophores. Such arrangements were controlled by peripheric substituents to operate either as isolated chromophores or as skew oriented pairs where H-type transitions cause hysochromic absorption and J-type transitions bathochromic fluorescence. As a consequence, large Stokes' shift could be obtained.

Keywords

Lipophilic Optical Supramolecular Nano Device

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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