Interlinking Au nanoparticles in 2D arrays via conjugated dithiolated molecules

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Liao, Jianhui ^a   Mangold, Markus A ^a   Grunder, Sergio ^a   Mayor, Marcel ^a,b   Schönenberger, Christian ^a   Calame, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERS;

AU NANO-PARTICLES; CONJUGATED OLIGOMERS; END-GROUPS; GOLD-NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; MOLECULAR EXCHANGES; MOLECULAR JUNCTIONS; MONOTHIOL; OCTANETHIOL (OT); PHENYLENE-ETHYNYLENE (PPE); SELF-ASSEMBLED; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) ARRAY;

GOLD;

EID: 47149102751     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/6/065019     Document Type: Article

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