Orientationally ordered C60 on p-sexiphenyl nanostripes on Ag(111)

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 693-698

  Chen, Wei ^a   Zhang, Hongliang ^a   Huang, Han ^a   Chen, Lan ^a   Wee, Andrew Thye Shen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

C60; Molecular orientation; Monolayer; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

LONG RANGE; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERINGS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; FULLERENE C60; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; SILVER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FULLERENES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 46849115369     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800033z     Document Type: Article

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