Through-bond and chain-to-chain coupling. Two pathways in electron tunneling through liquid alkanethiol monolayers on mercury electrodes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 119, Issue 49, 1997, Pages 11910-11919

  Slowinski, Krzysztof ^a,c   Chamberlain, Richard V ^a   Miller, Cary J ^b   Majda, Marcin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COUPLING MATRIX ELEMENT; LIQUID ALKANETHIOL MONOLAYERS; MERCURY DROP ELECTRODES; PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER MEASUREMENT;

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MERCURY (METAL); OXIDATION;

MONOLAYERS;

ARTICLE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IN VITRO STUDY; MODEL; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031439098     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja971921l     Document Type: Article

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