A combined top-down bottom-up approach for introducing nanoparticle networks into nanoelectrode gaps

Nanotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3333-3339

  Xu, Cigang ^a   Van Zalinge, Harm ^b   Pearson, John L ^a   Glidle, Andrew ^a   Cooper, Jonathan M ^a   Cumming, David R S ^a   Haiss, Wolfgang ^b   Yao, Jianlin ^b   Schiffrin, David J ^b   Proupín Pérez, María ^b   Cosstick, Richard ^b   Nichols, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ELECTRODES; GOLD; LITHOGRAPHY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

BENZENEDIMETHANETHIOL (BDMT); LAYER-BY-LAYER PROTOCOL; MOLECULAR CONDUCTANCE; NANOPARTICLE ADSORPTION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33745713715     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/17/14/001     Document Type: Article

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