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Ultrahigh Density Array of Vertically Aligned Small-molecular Organic Nanowires on Arbitrary Substrates
Published on: June 18, 2013
In-wire conversion of a metal nanorod segment into an organic semiconductor
Xiaodong Chen1, Gengfeng Zheng, Joshua I Cutler
1Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|April 24, 2009
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