Quantifying the atomic-level mechanics of single long physisorbed molecular chains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3968-3972

  Kawai, Shigeki ^a,b   Koch, Matthias ^c   Gnecco, Enrico ^d   Sadeghi, Ali ^a   Pawlak, Rémy ^a   Glatzel, Thilo ^a   Schwarz, Jutta ^e   Goedecker, Stefan ^a   Hecht, Stefan ^e   Baratoff, Alexis ^a   Grill, Leonhard ^c,f   Meyer, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Conjugated polymers; Force spectroscopy; Friction; Nanomanipulation

Indexed keywords

FLUORENE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE; COVALENT BOND; DESORPTION; FORCE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ADHESION; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; FRICTION; NANOMANIPULATION;

ADHESIVENESS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIOPOLYMERS; FLUORENES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION;

EID: 84896520381     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319938111     Document Type: Article

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