Langmuir-Schäfer films of an amphiphilic ruthenium complex bearing an "almost naked" multicharged headgroup

Inorganic Chemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 5368-5372

  Di Bella, Santo ^a   Sortino, Salvatore ^a   Conoci, Sabrina ^b   Petralia, Salvatore ^b   Casilli, Serena ^c   Valli, Ludovico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; METAL COMPLEX; RUTHENIUM COMPLEX;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BREWSTER ANGLE MICROSCOPY; FILM; IONIC STRENGTH; LANGMUIR SCHAFER FILM; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 4043165439     PISSN: 00201669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ic049381y     Document Type: Article

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