Molecular-scale size tuning of covalently bound assembly of C60 molecules

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 7830-7837

  Nakaya, Masato ^a   Aono, Masakazu ^a   Nakayama, Tomonobu ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

C60; intermolecular reaction; molecular chemistry; molecular device; nanostructure; oligomer; scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

C60; COVALENTLY BOUND; CRITICAL FACTORS; FULLERENE C; INTERFACE LAYER; INTERMOLECULAR REACTIONS; LINEAR CHAIN; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; MOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DEVICE; NEGATIVE SAMPLE BIAS; PENTAMERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SECOND LAYER; SIZE TUNING; TETRAMERS; TUNNELING JUNCTIONS; ULTRATHIN MULTILAYER FILMS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MOLECULES; MULTILAYER FILMS; MULTILAYERS; OLIGOMERIZATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

DIMERS;

EID: 80055024335     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201869g     Document Type: Article

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