Highly oriented growth of p-sexiphenyl molecular nanocrystals on rubbed polymethylene surface

Macromolecules

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 9617-9624

  Hu, Wei Shan ^b   Lin, Yen Fu ^c   Tao, Yu Tai ^a,b   Hsu, Yao Jane ^d   Wei, Der Hsin ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; DECOMPOSITION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTAL DEPOSITION; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOMETER-SCALE; POLYMETHYLENE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 28144439226     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma051298m     Document Type: Article

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