Charge transport at the metal-organic interface

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 221-245

  Chen, Shaowei ^a   Zhao, Zhenhuan ^b   Liu, Hong ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Shandong University   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Intraparticle charge delocalization; Metal ligand contacts; Molecular junctions; Organically capped nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; LIGANDS; METALS; ORGANOMETALLICS;

BONDING INTERACTIONS; CHARGE DELOCALIZATION; INTRAPARTICLE; INTRAPARTICLE CHARGE DELOCALIZATION; METAL LIGANDS; METAL-LIGAND CONTACT; METAL-ORGANIC INTERFACE; METALORGANICS; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; ORGANICALLY CAPPED NANOPARTICLE;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84876008253     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040412-110035     Document Type: Review

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