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Zachary M Fresco1, Itai Suez, Scott A Backer
1Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720-1460, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|July 9, 2004
Abstract:
An alpha,alpha-dimethyl-3,5-dimethoxybenzyloxycarbonyl (DDZ)-protected amine monolayer can be selectively deprotected by the application of a voltage bias from a conducting AFM tip to afford localized nanoscale patterns that can be visualized by self-assembly of dendritic molecular objects with terminal carboxylic acid groups and different aspect ratios.

