Controlled insulator-to-metal transformation in printable polymer composites with nanometal clusters

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-155

  Sivaramakrishnan, Sankaran ^a   Chia, Perq Jon ^a   Yeo, Yee Chia ^a   Chua, Lay Lay ^a   Ho, Peter K H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRODES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SINTERING;

INSULATOR TO METAL TRANSFORMATION; METAL FILMS; NANOMETAL CLUSTERS; PLASTIC ELECTRONICS;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 33846679757     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1806     Document Type: Article

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