Self-organization of supramolecular helical dendrimers into complex electronic materials

Nature

Volumn 417, Issue 6905, 2002, Pages 384-387

  Percec, V ^a   Glodde, M ^a   Bera, T K ^a   Miura, Y ^a   Shiyanovskaya, I ^b   Singer, K D ^b   Balagurusamy, V S K ^a   Heiney, P A ^a   Schnell, I ^c   Rapp, A ^c   Spiess, H W ^c   Hudsonk, S D ^d   Duan, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; DENDRIMERS; FABRICATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

DENDRONS;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

DENDRIMER; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

CRYSTAL; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 4644284199     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01072     Document Type: Article

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