Polyanionic, alkylthiosulfate-based thiol precursors for conjugated polymer self-assembly onto gold and silver

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 11758-11765

  Kraft, Mario ^a   Adamczyk, Sylwia ^a   Polywka, Andreas ^a   Zilberberg, Kirill ^a   Weijtens, Christ ^b   Meyer, Jens ^b   Görrn, Patrick ^a   Riedl, Thomas ^a   Scherf, Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bunte salts; charge injection interlayer; conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPE); conjugated polymer bilayer; cross linking; self assembly

Indexed keywords

CHARGE INJECTION; ELECTRODES; GOLD; HYDROLYSIS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYELECTROLYTES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILVER;

CONJUGATED POLYELECTROLYTES; ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES; ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SOLVENTS; GOLD AND SILVER; HYDROLYSIS PRODUCTS; POLAR SOLVENTS; POLYMER SELF-ASSEMBLY; SILVER SURFACE;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

EID: 84904967963     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5025148     Document Type: Article

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