Probing Conductivity of Polyelectrolyte/Nanoparticle Composite Films by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1459-1462

  Ruiz, Virginia ^a   Liljeroth, Peter ^a,b   Quinn, Bernadette M ^a   Kontturi, Kyösti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYELECTROLYTE; POLYMER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FILM; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0242382670     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl034633y     Document Type: Article

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