Dynamic interfaces in an organic thin film

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 16418-16425

  Tao, Chenggang ^a,b   Liu, Qiang ^a,b   Riddick, Blake S ^a,b   Cullen, William G ^a,b   Reutt Robey, Janice ^a,b   Weeks, John D ^a,b   Williams, Ellen D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion kinetics; Fluctuations and noise; Molecular interactions; Phase coexistence; Scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FILM; KINETICS; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 55949096612     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805811105     Document Type: Article

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