Self-organized and Cu-coordinated surface linear polymerization

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Qing ^a   Owens, Jonathan R ^c   Han, Chengbo ^b   Sumpter, Bobby G ^a   Lu, Wenchang ^a,b   Bernholc, Jerzy ^a,b   Meunier, V ^c,d   Maksymovych, Peter ^a   Fuentes Cabrera, Miguel ^a   Pan, Minghu ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84880107753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02102     Document Type: Article

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