Formation and electrochemical characteristics of multilayers of Au nanoclusters covered by mixed self-assembled monolayers of three kinds of alkanethiols with methyl, ferrocene, or carboxylate terminal group on Au(111) surface

Chemistry Letters

Volumn , Issue 9, 2001, Pages 930-931

  Kondo, Toshihiro ^a   Okamura, Masayuki ^a   Uosaki, Kohei ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0035540085     PISSN: 03667022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1246/cl.2001.930     Document Type: Article

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