title: Revealing the structural detail of individual polymers using a combination of electrospray deposition and UHV-STM.
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.
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. trolle@inano.au.dk.
authors.forename: Siddharth J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Jethwa
authors.affiliation: Center for DNA Nanotechnology (CDNA) at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark. kvg@chem.au.dk.
authors.forename: Mikael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Madsen
authors.affiliation: Center for DNA Nanotechnology (CDNA) at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark. kvg@chem.au.dk.
authors.forename: Jakob Back
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Knudsen
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. trolle@inano.au.dk.
authors.forename: Lutz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lammich
authors.affiliation: Center for DNA Nanotechnology (CDNA) at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark. kvg@chem.au.dk.
authors.forename: Kurt V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Gothelf
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. trolle@inano.au.dk.
authors.forename: Trolle R
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9008-7581
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Linderoth