Issue 25, 2006
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Chemical Communications

Switching in molecular shapes: main chain length driven rod–circle transition of isolated helical polysilanes†

Akihiro Ohira,*a   Sun-Young Kim,‡b   Michiya Fujiki,*a   Yusuke Kawakami,b   Masanobu Naito,a   Giseop Kwaka  and  Anubhav Saxena§a  

* Corresponding authors

a Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, Japan
E-mail: aohira@ms.naist.jp, fujikim@ms.naist.jp
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b Graduate School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, Japan
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Abstract

Unique conformations such as rod, semicircle, and circle structures of isolated semi-flexible helical polysilanes were observed by atomic force microscopy (AFM); the chain topology was significantly related to the chain length (molecular weight) on the surfaces.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B603122F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Mar 2006
Accepted
08 May 2006
First published
24 May 2006

Chem. Commun., 2006, 2705-2707

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Switching in molecular shapes: main chain length driven rod–circle transition of isolated helical polysilanes

A. Ohira, S. Kim, M. Fujiki, Y. Kawakami, M. Naito, G. Kwak and A. Saxena, Chem. Commun., 2006, 2705 DOI: 10.1039/B603122F

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