Molecular scale electronics. Syntheses and testing

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 84, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 303-306

  Pearson, Darren L ^a   Jones III, LeRoy ^a   Schumm, Jeffry S ^a   Tour, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling reactions; Other conjugated and or conducting polymers; Self assembly using surface chemistry; Transition metal catalysed reactions

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; GOLD; MOLECULES; OLIGOMERS; PROBES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MOLECULAR SCALE ELECTRONICS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 0030698953     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0379-6779(97)80760-6     Document Type: Article

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36. We thank the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for support of this work.