A simple technique to grow polymer brushes using in situ surface ligation of an organometallic initiator

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 40, 2006, Pages 13040-13041

  Dronavajjala, Krishna D ^b   Rajagopalan, Ramakrishnan ^a   Uppili, Sundararajan ^a   Sen, Ayusman ^a   Allara, David L ^a   Foley, Henry C ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CATALYST; COMPLEX FORMATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33749530715     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja064549v     Document Type: Article

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