Synthesis of a novel chiral squaraine dye and its unique aggregation behavior in solution and in self-assembled monolayers

Advanced Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1271-1275

  Stoll, Ragnar S ^b   Severin, Nikolai ^a   Rabe, Jürgen P ^a   Hecht, Stefan ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KOHLENFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ALCOHOLS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SELF ASSEMBLY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHIRAL SQUARAINE DYE; LINEAR N-ALKYL SIDE CHAINS; SOLID SUBSTRATE; SQUARAINE CHROMOPHORE;

DYES;

EID: 33744484327     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200502094     Document Type: Article

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