Advances in single-molecule magnet surface patterning through microcontact printing

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1435-1438

  Mannini, Matteo ^a   Bonacchi, Daniele ^a,e   Zobbi, Laura ^b   Piras, Federica M ^c   Speets, Emiel A ^d   Caneschi, Andrea ^a   Cornia, Andrea ^b   Magnani, Agnese ^c   Ravoo, Bart Jan ^d   Reinhoudt, David N ^d   Sessoli, Roberta ^a   Gatteschi, Dante ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e Gruppo Colorobbia Italia SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PRINTING; QUANTUM THEORY; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

MICROCONTACT PRINTING; PATTERNED STRUCTURE; SINGLE-MOLECULE MAGNET; SURFACE PATTERNING;

MAGNETS;

MANGANESE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVALUATION; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRINTING; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNETICS; MANGANESE; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; PRINTING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 23144466787     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0508016     Document Type: Article

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