Single-molecule force measurements by nano-handling of individual dendronized polymers

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2237-2245

  Grebikova, Lucie ^a   Maroni, Plinio ^a   Zhang, Baozhong ^b   Schlüter, A Dieter ^b   Borkovec, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

atomic force microscopy; dendron; dendronized polymers; force spectroscopy; scanning probe microscopy; single molecule

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHAINS; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; MOLECULES; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY;

DENDRONIZED POLYMERS; DENDRONS; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREELY JOINTED CHAINS; MONOTONIC DEPENDENCE; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE FORCE MEASUREMENTS; SOLUTION COMPOSITION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84897010926     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405485h     Document Type: Article

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