title: Gold Nanoparticles with Covalently Attached Polymer Chains This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. We are grateful to Prof. Dr. H. Weller, Institut für Physikalische Chemie der Universität Hamburg, for the transmission electron microscopy pictures and to Prof. Dr. M. Möller and Dipl.-Chem. Bernd Tartsch, Abteilung Organische Chemie III der Universität Ulm, for the scanning forcce microscopy investigations.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Makromolekulare Chemie Universität Hannover Am Kleinen Felde 30, 30167 Hannover (Germany).
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nuss
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Böttcher
authors.forename: Hellmuth
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wurm
authors.forename: Manfred L.
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Hallensleben