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A New Method to Fabricate Single‐Molecule Nanoarrays Using Dendrimer‐Based Templates
Author(s) -
Tokuhisa H.,
Kubo T.,
Koyama E.,
Hiratani K.,
Kanesato M.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200304946
Subject(s) - dendrimer , template , nanotechnology , materials science , molecule , electronics , polymer chemistry , chemistry , organic chemistry
Dendrimer architectures are used as spacing‐templates to fabricate single molecule nanoarrays. It is shown that this new method (see Figure for illustration) fabricates a nanoarray of single thioctic acids separated by a distance related to the dendron size on Au. This approach could be used for assembling single functional molecules for nanotechnology in areas such as molecular electronics.