Self-assembled, molecularly aligned conjugated polymer Nanowires via dewetting

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3045-3054

  Chang, Shion Seng ^a   Tsoi, Wing C ^b   Higgins, Anthony M ^a   Kim, Ji Seon ^b   Winfield, Jessica M ^c   James, David T ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS POLYMERS; DE-WETTING; DEWETTING PROCESS; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; LATE STAGE; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR ALIGNMENT; POLARIZED RAMAN; POLYFLUORENE FILMS; RAYLEIGH INSTABILITY; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SPINODALS; TEFLON SUBSTRATE; VAN DER WAALS THEORY;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; ASPECT RATIO; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 77957200055     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201000830     Document Type: Article

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