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Bistable Electrical Switching and Rewritable Memory Effect in a Thin Film Acrylate Copolymer Containing Carbazole-Oxadiazole Donor–Acceptor Pendant Groups
The molecular conformation-dependent write-once read-many-times (WORM) memory based on an acrylate polymer containing pendant carbazole (donor) groups is transformed into a flash (rewritable) memory when acryl...
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Much of the interaction of a material with its environment is governed by its surface, and modulation of the material’s surface characteristics can vastly broaden its range of application. This review focuses ...
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Antimicrobial surfaces of viologen-quaternized poly((2-dimethyl amino)ethyl methacrylate)-Si(100) hybrids from surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization
To improve the antimicrobial ability of silicon-based bioelectronics and to tailor the silicon surfaces for inhibiting biofilm formation, well-defined functional polymer-Si(100) hybrids, consisting of nearly m...
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Chemical nature of the nitrogens in polypyrrole and nitrogen-substituted polypyrrole: a comparative study by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
The chemical nature of the nitrogens in polypyrrole (PPY) and poly(N-methylpyrrole) (PMPY) has been critically compared using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy as a primary tool. Treatment of PPY/perchlorate co...
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X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of some chemically prepared polypyrrole-halobenzoquinone complexes
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) studies were performed on conductive polypyrrole-tetrafluoro-p-benzoquinone (PPY-p-fluoranil), polypyrrole-tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone (PPY-p-chloranil) and polypyrrole-tstra...