Preparation and characterization of conductive and photoluminescent DNA-templated polyindole nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2149-2159

  Hassanien, Reda ^a   Al Hinai, Mariam ^b   Farha Al Said, Said A ^a   Little, Ross ^c   Šiller, Lidija ^c   Wright, Nicholas G ^b   Houlton, Andrew ^a   Horrocks, Benjamin R ^a  

^a School of Chemistry   (United Kingdom)

^b Merz Court Newcastle University   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conducting polymer; DNA; Nanowires; Polyindole; Temperature dependence; Template synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS; CHEMICAL OXIDATION; CONDUCTIVE AFM; DNA-TEMPLATE; HOPPING MECHANISM; I-V MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR COMBING; POLYINDOLES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPLATE SYNTHESIS; TEMPLATED; ZERO BIAS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DNA; GENES; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

NANOWIRES;

DNA; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; LUMINESCENT AGENT; NANOWIRE; POLYMER; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INDOLES; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; MICROSCOPY; NANOWIRES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERS; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77951745257     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9014533     Document Type: Article

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