Revealing the structural detail of individual polymers using a combination of electrospray deposition and UHV-STM

Siddharth Jethwa, Mikael Madsen, Jakob Back Knudsen, Lutz Lammich, Kurt Vesterager Gothelf, Trolle René Linderoth

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Abstract

A phenylene vinylene polymer derivative is deposited onto a Au(111) surface under Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV) conditions using electrospray ionisation deposition and characterised using Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM). High resolution STM images reveal the polymer structure on the monomeric scale, allowing the identification of regioisomerism, the intricate isomerisations of the polymer side-chains, as well as the larger-scale topologies of the polymer strands.
Original languageEnglish
JournalChemical Communications
Volume53
Issue6
Pages (from-to)1168-1171
Number of pages4
ISSN1359-7345
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Jan 2017

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