Single-crystal linear polymers through visible light-triggered topochemical quantitative polymerization

Science

Volumn 343, Issue 6168, 2014, Pages 272-277

  Dou, Letian ^a,b,c   Zheng, Yonghao ^a,d   Shen, Xiaoqin ^a   Wu, Guang ^e   Fields, Kirk ^e   Hsu, Wan Ching ^b,c   Zhou, Huanping ^b,c   Yang, Yang ^b,c   Wudl, Fred ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; MONOMER; POLYMER;

CRYSTAL; DYE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMER; POLYMERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; FILM; LIGHT EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; THERMAL EXPOSURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84892596379     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1245875     Document Type: Article

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