Designing bistable [2]rotaxanes for molecular electronic devices

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1855, 2007, Pages 1607-1625

  Dichtel, William R ^a,b   Heath, James R ^a,b   Stoddart, J Fraser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistable rotaxanes; Molecular electronics; Molecular memory; Nanofabrication; Supramolecular chemistry; Switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249054899     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2034     Document Type: Article

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