Self-assembly of an operating electrical circuit based on shape complementarity and the hydrophobic effect

Advanced Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 470-473

  Terfort, Andreas ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; GOLD; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MAGNESIUM; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; REDUCTION;

POTASSIUM FERRICYANIDE;

ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032049232     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(199804)10:6<470::AID-ADMA470>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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