List of Abbreviations

	Work function
2D-FFT	Two Dimensional - Fourier Transform
AFM = SFM	Atomic Force Microscopy
DOVS	Density of Valence States
DP	Number Average Degree of Polymerization
Ea	Electron Affinity

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EB	Binding Energy
EF	Energy of the Fermi Level
EK	Kinetic Energy
EVac	Energy of the Vacuum Level
ESCA	see XPS
GPC = SEC	Gel Permeation Chromatography
HBC	Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene
HBC-C12	Hexakis-dodecyl-hexabenzocoronene
HOMO	Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital
HOPG	Highly Oriented Pyrolitic Graphite
HV	High Vacuum
IP	Ionization Potential
It	Tunneling Current
I-V	Current - Voltage
LUMO	Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital
MeOH	Methanol
Mn	Number Average Molar Mass
Mw	Weight Average Molar Mass
PES	Photoelectron Spectroscopy
PPE	Poly(para-phenyleneethynylene)
PPP	Poly(para-phenylene)
PS	Poly(styrene)
Rrms	Root mean square roughness
RA	Average roughness
SAM	Self-Assembled Monolayer
SEC	Size Exclusion Chromatography
SEM	Scanning Electron Microscopy
SFM = AFM	Scanning Force Microscopy
SNOM	Scanning Near Field Optical Microscopy
STM	Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
STS	Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
THF	Tetrahydrofurane
TEM	Transmission Electron Microscopy
TM-SFM	Tapping Mode - Scanning Force Microscopy

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TSG	Template Stripped Gold
Tsub	Temperature of the substrate
U = Mn / Mw	Polydispersity
UPS	Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy
UHV	Ultra-high Vacuum
Ut	Tip bias
VEH	Valence Effective Hamiltonian
XPS = ESCA	X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
XRD	X-ray Diffraction

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