The invention of the scanning tunneling microscope has led to the visualization of molecules
in real space on atomically flat conductive substrates. This has boosted research into …

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are an emerging class of carbon-based nanomaterials. CQDs
are receiving considerable interest in biomedical applications due to their low toxicity …

For the development of various molecular nanostructures such as single-molecule electronic
circuits, it is very important to fix the molecular components at predetermined positions on a …

The trapping of single molecules on surfaces without the formation of strong covalent bonds
is a prerequisite for molecular recognition and the exploitation of molecular function. On …

Abstract In this Progress Report, outstanding scientific applications of scanning probe
microscopy (SPM) in the field of materials science and the latest technique developments …

▪ Abstract Organic molecules adsorbed on solid surfaces display a fascinating variety of new
physical and chemical phenomena ranging from self-assembly and molecular recognition to …

Recent attention given to the growth and morphology of organic thin films with regard to
organic electronics has led to the observation of dewetting (a transition from layer (s) to …

Adopting first-principles density functional theory (FPS-DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD),
calculations on 3d transition metal (TM) doped buckled Lithium Fluoride (LiF) monolayer are …

Molecular self‐assembly constitutes a versatile strategy for creating functional structures on
surfaces. Tuning the subtle balance between intermolecular and molecule‐surface …

Noncontact atomic force microscopy has been applied to the prototypical molecule-insulator
system C 60 on KBr to study nucleation and submonolayer growth. Overview images reveal …