Dissections: Self-assembled aggregates that spontaneously reconfigure their structures when their environment changes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 124, Issue 49, 2002, Pages 14508-14509

  Mao, Chengde ^a   Thalladi, Venkat R ^a   Wolfe, Daniel B ^a   Whitesides, Sue ^b   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; DENSITY; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037065308     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja021043d     Document Type: Article

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