Adsorption and polymer film formation on metal nanoclusters

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 6497-6502

  Tadd, Erica ^a   Zeno, Astra ^a   Zubris, Melissa ^a   Dan, Nily ^b   Tannenbaum, Rina ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; FILM PREPARATION; FLOCCULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLUME FRACTION;

METAL NANOCLUSTERS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER FILM FORMATION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0042821877     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma034207z     Document Type: Article

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