Electrons Are Transported through Phenylene-Ethynylene Oligomer Monolayers via Localized Molecular Orbitals

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2568-2573

  Fan, Fu Ren F ^a   Lai, Rebecca Y ^a   Cornil, Jérôme ^b,c   Karzazi, Yasser ^b   Brédas, Jean Luc ^b,e   Cai, Lintao ^d   Cheng, Long ^d   Yao, Yuxing ^d   Price Jr , David W ^d   Dirk, Shawn M ^d   Tour, James M ^d   Bard, Allen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETHYLENE; MONOLAYERS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; SULFUR;

ELECTRON HOPPING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

OLIGOMERS;

ALKYNE DERIVATIVE; ANION; BENZENE; ETHYNYLENE; OLIGOMER; PHENYLENE; RADICAL; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY;

EID: 10744225627     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja038189c     Document Type: Article

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