Unlocking the functional properties in one-dimensional MoSI cluster polymers by doping and photoinduced charge

Peter Topolovsek1, Christoph Gadermaier, Damjan Vengust

  • 1Department of Complex Matter, Jožef Stefan Institute , Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Nano Letters
|January 7, 2015
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