Two-dimensional crystals of poly(3-alkylthiophene)s: Direct visualization of polymer folds in submolecular resolution

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2679-2684

  Mena Osteritz, Elena ^a   Meyer, Alexander ^a   Langeveld Voss, Bea M W ^b   Janssen, Rene A J ^b   Meijer, E W ^b   Bäuerle, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conducting materials; Polymer folding; Polymers; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Semiempirical calculations

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUP; POLYMER; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; POLYMERIZATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0034604556     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3773(20000804)39:15<2679::aid-anie2679>3.0.co;2-2     Document Type: Article

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