Highly conductive ∼ 40-nm-long molecular wires assembled by stepwise incorporation of metal centres

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-46

  Tuccitto, Nunzio ^a   Ferri, Violetta ^b   Cavazzini, Marco ^c   Quici, Silvio ^c   Zhavnerko, Genady ^a   Licciardello, Antonino ^a   Rampi, Maria Anita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; METAL IONS; METALS; MOLECULES; NANOWIRES; WIRE;

ELECTRONIC FUNCTIONS; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; MECHANICAL ROBUSTNESS; METAL ELECTRODES; MOLECULAR FILMS; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC MOLECULES;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 57849087224     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2332     Document Type: Article

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