Photoswitched sexithiophenes: Towards switchable molecular wires

Advanced Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-42

  Tsivgoulis, Gerasimos M ^a   Lehn, Jean Marie ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; OXIDATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; WIRE;

BATHOCHROMICITY; PHOTOSWITCHABLE MOLECULAR WIRE; SEXITHIOPHENES;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 0030736389     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.19970090107     Document Type: Article

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