Chiral "pinwheel" heterojunctions self-assembled from C 60 and pentacene

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3086-3094

  Smerdon, Joseph A ^a,c   Rankin, Rees B ^b,d   Greeley, Jeffrey P ^b,d   Guisinger, Nathan P ^b   Guest, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon 60; chirality; pentacene; pinwheel; scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBON-60; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; DEGREE OF SYMMETRY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; MONOLAYER COVERAGE; PENTACENES; PINWHEEL;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHIRALITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULES; MONOLAYERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

STEREOCHEMISTRY;

FULLERENE C60; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; MACROMOLECULE; NANOMATERIAL; NAPHTHACENE DERIVATIVE; PENTACENE;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; FULLERENES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NAPHTHACENES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84876577340     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304992c     Document Type: Article

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