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Science 7 April 1978:
Vol. 200. no. 4337, pp. 47 - 48
DOI: 10.1126/science.200.4337.47
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New Low-Dimensional Molecular Metals: Single-Crystal Electrical Conductivity of Nickel Phthalocyanine Iodide

C. J. SCHRAMM 1, D. R. STOJAKOVIC 1, B. M. HOFFMAN 1, and T. J. MARKS 1

1 Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201

Single crystals of NiPcI1.0 (Pc = phthalocyanine), which are composed of one-dimensional stacks of (NiPc)+0.33 molecules and chains of I3- molecules, exhibit metallic electrical conductivity in the stacking direction. At room temperature the mean free path of the carrier is 3.3 to 8.2 angstroms.

Submitted on August 26, 1977
Revised on December 20, 1977

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