Ultralong copper phthalocyanine nanowires with new crystal structure and broad optical absorption

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3921-3926

  Wang, Hai ^a,c   Mauthoor, Soumaya ^b   Din, Salahud ^b   Gardener, Jules A ^a,d   Chang, Rio ^b   Warner, Marc ^a   Aeppli, Gabriel ^a   McComb, David W ^b   Ryan, Mary P ^b   Wu, Wei ^a   Fisher, Andrew J ^a   Stoneham, Marshall ^a   Heutz, Sandrine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KUNMING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

molecular magnetism; molecular optoelectronics; nanowire; organic vapor phase deposition; phthalocyanine; polymorph

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC COUPLING; COPPER PHTHALOCYANINE; CRYSTAL PHASE; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LONG AXIS; METALPHTHALOCYANINES; MOLECULAR MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC VAPOR PHASE DEPOSITION; VAPOR PHASE;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMORPHISM; VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY; VAPORS; WIRE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 77955546360     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100782w     Document Type: Article

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