Highly branched and loop-rich gels via formation of metal-organic cages linked by polymers

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 33-41

  Zhukhovitskiy, Aleksandr V ^a   Zhong, Mingjiang ^a   Keeler, Eric G ^a,b   Michaelis, Vladimir K ^a,b   Sun, Jessie E P ^c   Hore, Michael J A ^d   Pochan, Darrin J ^c   Griffin, Robert G ^a,b   Willard, Adam P ^a   Johnson, Jeremiah A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEL; LIGAND; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; GEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

ELASTICITY; GELS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84951087804     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2390     Document Type: Article

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