Cyclodextrin-threaded conjugated polyrotaxanes as insulated molecular wires with reduced interstrand interactions

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 160-164

  Cacialli, Franco ^a,b   Wilson, Joanne S ^b   Michels, Jasper J ^c   Daniel, Clement ^b   Silva, Carlos ^b   Friend, Richard H ^b   Severin, Nikolai ^d   Samori, Paolo ^d,e   Rabe, Jürgen P ^d   O'connell, Michael J ^c   Taylor, Peter N ^c   Anderson, Harry L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYMERS;

MOLECULAR WIRES;

SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

CYCLODEXTRIN; POLYMER; ROTAXANE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CYCLODEXTRINS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERS; QUALITY CONTROL; ROTAXANES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036879479     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat750     Document Type: Article

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