The engineering of highly organized systems from instructed molecular building blocks
opens up new vistas for the control of matter and the exploration of nanodevice concepts …

The non-covalent synthesis of coordination compounds and networks provides promising
avenues towardsmetal-containing supermolecules and nanostructured materials with …

Surface coordination chemistry has been traditionally associated with analogies between
metal–ligand bonding in coordination compounds and chemisorptive interactions, the …

The bonding and the temperature-driven metalation of 2H-tetraphenylporphyrin (2H-TPP) on
the Cu (111) surface under ultrahigh vacuum conditions were investigated by a combination …

Spectroscopic techniques based on the use of synchrotron radiation have significantly
contributed to a better understanding of macroscopic as well as of microscopic properties of …

Functional molecular nanoarchitectures (FMNs) are highly relevant for the development of
future nanotechnology devices. Profound knowledge about the atomically controlled …

Molecular self-assembly and reactions at surfaces provide a versatile and appealing
approach to nanomaterials synthesis, with a tremendous potential for engineering purpose …

We present a combined scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), near-edge x-ray-absorption
fine-structure, and x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) study on the bonding and …

The driving force for self-assembly is the associated gain in free energy with decisive
contributions from both enthalpy and entropy differences between final and initial state. For …

We present a molecular‐level study of the geometric and electronic properties of CoII
tetraphenylporphyrin molecules adsorbed on the Cu (111) surface. A combination of low …