A modular approach to two-photon absorbing organic nanodots: brilliant dendrimers as an alternative to semiconductor quantum dots?

Olivier Mongin; Thatavarathy Rama Krishna; Martinus H V Werts; Anne-Marie Caminade; Jean-Pierre Majoral; Mireille Blanchard-Desce

doi:10.1039/b517270e

A modular approach to two-photon absorbing organic nanodots: brilliant dendrimers as an alternative to semiconductor quantum dots?

Chem Commun (Camb). 2006 Feb 28:(8):915-7. doi: 10.1039/b517270e. Epub 2006 Jan 19.

Authors

Olivier Mongin¹, Thatavarathy Rama Krishna, Martinus H V Werts, Anne-Marie Caminade, Jean-Pierre Majoral, Mireille Blanchard-Desce

Affiliation

¹ Synthèse et Electrosynthèse Organiques (CNRS, UMR 6510), Université de Rennes 1, Campus Scientifique de Beaulieu, Bât. 10A, F-35042, Rennes Cedex, France.

PMID: 16479310
DOI: 10.1039/b517270e

Abstract

Nanoscopic fluorescent dendrimers having up to 96 two-photon chromophores and showing very large two-photon absorption cross-sections (up to 56 000 GM) were designed as a complementary "organic" alternative to quantum dots.