Controlling a chemical coupling reaction on a surface: tools and strategies for on-surface synthesis

S Clair, DG de Oteyza - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising research field aimed at
creating new organic materials. A large number of chemical reactions have been …

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons: interplay of structural and electronic properties

RSK Houtsma, J de la Rie, M Stöhr - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene nanoribbons hold great promise for future applications in nanoelectronic devices,
as they may combine the excellent electronic properties of graphene with the opening of an …

On‐surface synthesis of atomically precise graphene nanoribbons

L Talirz, P Ruffieux, R Fasel - Advanced materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The surface‐assisted polymerization and cyclodehydrogenation of specifically designed
organic precursors provides a route toward atomically precise graphene nanoribbons, which …

Surface-catalyzed C–C covalent coupling strategies toward the synthesis of low-dimensional carbon-based nanostructures

Q Fan, JM Gottfried, J Zhu - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Carbon-based nanostructures have attracted tremendous interest because of
their versatile and tunable properties, which depend on the bonding type of the constituting …

Site-specific substitutional boron doping of semiconducting armchair graphene nanoribbons

RR Cloke, T Marangoni, GD Nguyen… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A fundamental requirement for the development of advanced electronic device architectures
based on graphene nanoribbon (GNR) technology is the ability to modulate the band …

On-surface growth dynamics of graphene nanoribbons: the role of halogen functionalization

M Di Giovannantonio, O Deniz, JI Urgel, R Widmer… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
On-surface synthesis is a powerful route toward the fabrication of specific graphene-like
nanostructures confined in two dimensions. This strategy has been successfully applied to …

The Role of Metal Adatoms in a Surface‐Assisted Cyclodehydrogenation Reaction on a Gold Surface

J Björk, C Sánchez‐Sánchez, Q Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dehydrogenation reactions are key steps in many metal‐catalyzed chemical processes and
in the on‐surface synthesis of atomically precise nanomaterials. The principal role of the …

Hierarchical on-surface synthesis and electronic structure of carbonyl-functionalized one-and two-dimensional covalent nanoarchitectures

C Steiner, J Gebhardt, M Ammon, Z Yang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The fabrication of nanostructures in a bottom-up approach from specific molecular
precursors offers the opportunity to create tailored materials for applications in …

From graphene nanoribbons on Cu (111) to nanographene on Cu (110): critical role of substrate structure in the bottom-up fabrication strategy

KA Simonov, NA Vinogradov, AS Vinogradov… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Bottom-up strategies can be effectively implemented for the fabrication of atomically precise
graphene nanoribbons. Recently, using 10, 10′-dibromo-9, 9′-bianthracene (DBBA) as a …

Confined on-surface organic synthesis: Strategies and mechanisms

T Wang, J Zhu - Surface Science Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
On-surface synthesis has been one of the hottest research fields in surface science in the
last decade, owing to its great potential for bottom-up synthesis of functional molecules and …