The halogen bond occurs when there is evidence of a net attractive interaction between an
electrophilic region associated with a halogen atom in a molecular entity and a nucleophilic …

Understanding how molecules interact to form large-scale hierarchical structures on
surfaces holds promise for building designer nanoscale constructs with defined chemical …

Fractals, being “exactly the same at every scale or nearly the same at different scales” as
defined by Benoit B. Mandelbrot, are complicated yet fascinating patterns that are important …

Halogen bonds, which provide an intermolecular interaction with moderate strength and
high directionality, have emerged as a promising tool in the repertoire of non‐covalent …

Halogen bonding (XB) is commonly defined as a non-covalent bond where halogen atoms
(X= Cl, Br, I) function as electron acceptors. As an analogue of hydrogen bonding, halogen …

Halogen bonding is a noncovalent interaction where an electrophilic cap on a halogen
atom, the so-called σ-hole, attracts a nucleophilic site on an adjacent molecule. The …

Surfaces are at the frontier of every known solid. They provide versatile supports for
functional nanostructures and mediate essential physicochemical processes. Intimately …

Weak interactions between bromine, sulphur, and hydrogen are shown to stabilize 2D
supramolecular monolayers at the liquid–solid interface. Three different thiophene-based …

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 …

Keen desires for artificial mimicry of biological polymers and property improvement of
synthesized ones have triggered intensive explorations for sequence-controlled …