Directed self-assembled crystalline oligomer domains on graphene and graphite

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Balzer, Frank ^a   Henrichsen, Henrik H ^b   Klarskov, Mikkel B ^b   Booth, Timothy J ^b   Sun, Rong ^a,d   Parisi, Jürgen ^c   Schiek, Manuela ^c   Bøggild, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GRAPHITE; MOLECULES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GROWTH SUBSTRATES; LONG AXIS; MOLECULAR THIN FILM; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SEMICONDUCTOR MOLECULES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84896537347     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/3/035602     Document Type: Article

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