Heads or tails: Which is more important in molecular self-assembly?

ACS Nano

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-12

  Bent, Stacey F ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE PACKING; HEAD GROUPS; INTERMOLECULAR ORDERING; MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY; UNDERLYING SURFACE;

ORGANIC POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 37549026006     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn700118k     Document Type: Review

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