Colloquium: Cluster growth on surfaces: Densities, <?format ?>size distributions, and morphologies

M Einax, W Dieterich, P Maass - Reviews of modern physics, 2013 - APS
Understanding and control of cluster and thin-film growth on solid surfaces is a subject of
intensive research to develop nanomaterials with new physical properties. In this …

Bicomponent supramolecular architectures at the vacuum–solid interface

X Bouju, C Mattioli, G Franc, A Pujol… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review aims at giving the readers the basic concepts needed to understand two-
dimensional bimolecular organizations at the vacuum–solid interface. The first part …

Supramolecular heterostructures formed by sequential epitaxial deposition of two-dimensional hydrogen-bonded arrays

VV Korolkov, M Baldoni, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) supramolecular arrays provide a route to the spatial control
of the chemical functionality of a surface, but their deposition is in almost all cases limited to …

Self-assembled molecular network formed by controlling molecular deposition of organic compounds

W Al Zoubi, N Nashrah, A Chaouiki, YG Ko - FlatChem, 2021 - Elsevier
Self-assembled molecular networks enable spatial and temporal control of surface chemical
functionalities. However, in most cases, the deposition process is unsuitable to the growth of …

Scanning tunneling microscopy manipulation of complex organic molecules on solid surfaces

R Otero, F Rosei, F Besenbacher - Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2006 - annualreviews.org
▪ 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 …

Molecular dewetting on insulators

SA Burke, JM Topple, P Grütter - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Strain induced dewetting of a molecular system: bimodal growth of PTCDA on NaCl

SA Burke, W Ji, JM Mativetsky, JM Topple, S Fostner… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
Submonolayer coverages of the molecule 3, 4, 9, 10-perylene tetracarboxylic dianhydride
(PTCDA) deposited on NaCl (001) surfaces were imaged with high resolution noncontact …

Atomic-Scale Mechanical Properties of Orientated C60 Molecules Revealed by Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

R Pawlak, S Kawai, S Fremy, T Glatzel, E Meyer - Acs Nano, 2011 - ACS Publications
In this work, the mechanical properties of C60 molecules adsorbed on Cu (111) are
measured by tuning-fork-based noncontact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) and …

Tuning Molecular Self‐Assembly on Bulk Insulator Surfaces by Anchoring of the Organic Building Blocks

P Rahe, M Kittelmann, JL Neff, M Nimmrich… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular self‐assembly constitutes a versatile strategy for creating functional structures on
surfaces. Tuning the subtle balance between intermolecular and molecule‐surface …

Dynamic force microscopy study of 3, 4, 9, 10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride on KBr (001)

T Kunstmann, A Schlarb, M Fendrich, T Wagner… - Physical Review B …, 2005 - APS
A scanning force microscope operated in the dynamic force mode has been used to analyze
the arrangement of 3, 4, 9, 10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) molecules on a …