A universal scheme to convert aromatic molecular monolayers into functional carbon nanomembranes

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 6489-6497

  Angelova, Polina ^a   Vieker, Henning ^a   Weber, Nils Eike ^a   Matei, Dan ^a   Reimer, Oliver ^a   Meier, Isabella ^a   Kurasch, Simon ^b   Biskupek, Johannes ^b   Lorbach, Dominik ^c   Wunderlich, Katrin ^c   Chen, Long ^c   Terfort, Andreas ^d   Klapper, Markus ^c   Müllen, Klaus ^c   Kaiser, Ute ^b   Gölzhäuser, Armin ^a   Turchanin, Andrey ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon nanomembranes; graphene; helium ion microscopy; molecular self assembly; two dimensional materials

Indexed keywords

FREE-STANDING NANOMEMBRANES; HELIUM ION MICROSCOPIES; MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY; NANOMEMBRANES; POLYAROMATIC MOLECULES; SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES; SURFACE FUNCTIONALITIES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE; MOLECULES; MONOLAYERS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE; HELIUM; ION; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; PROCEDURES;

BIOMIMETICS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CARBON; ELECTRONS; GRAPHITE; HELIUM; IONS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84883239148     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402652f     Document Type: Article

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