Holey Graphene as a Weed Barrier for Molecules

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 10909-10915

  Gethers, Matthew L ^a   Thomas, John C ^b   Jiang, Shan ^b   Weiss, Nathan O ^c   Duan, Xiangfang ^b   Goddard, William A ^a,d   Weiss, Paul S ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

chemical patterning; graphene; mask; nanoscience; scanning tunneling microscopy; self assembly

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; MASKS; MOLECULES; NANOSCIENCE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CHEMICAL PATTERNING; DILUTE SOLUTION; EXPOSED TO; GRAPHENE LATTICES; MOLECULAR ADSORPTION; POROUS GRAPHENE; POST DEPOSITION ANNEALING;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 84948454098     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03936     Document Type: Article

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