Rice, Maryland model offers better control for creation of
thin-film electronics
Like a baseball player sliding into third, a hot monomer
skids in a straight line along a cold surface until it’s safely among its
fellow molecules.
This is not what usually happens when scientists assemble
monomers to make thin films for next-generation electronics, but the details
remained a puzzle until a team led by Rice University got involved. Monomers
are organic molecules that, in this application, form clusters and eventually complete
layers.