Tailoring molecular layers at metal surfaces

L Bartels - Nature chemistry, 2010 - nature.com
The design of networks of organic molecules at metal surfaces, highly attractive for a variety
of applications ranging from molecular electronics to gas sensors to protective coatings, has …

Molecular Self‐Assembly at Solid Surfaces

R Otero, JM Gallego, ALV de Parga, N Martín… - Advanced …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly, the process by which objects initially distributed at random arrange into well‐
defined patterns exclusively due to their local mutual interactions without external …

Assembling molecular Sierpiński triangle fractals

J Shang, Y Wang, M Chen, J Dai, X Zhou, J Kuttner… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
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 …

Random tiling and topological defects in a two-dimensional molecular network

MO Blunt, JC Russell, MC Giménez-López… - Science, 2008 - science.org
A molecular network that exhibits critical correlations in the spatial order that is characteristic
of a random, entropically stabilized, rhombus tiling is described. Specifically, we report a …

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 …

Kinetics and thermodynamics in surface-confined molecular self-assembly

R Gutzler, L Cardenas, F Rosei - Chemical Science, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional molecular self-assembly at the liquid/solid interface is a widely employed
approach in surface science to pattern surfaces at the nanometre scale. A multitude of …

Complex supramolecular interfacial tessellation through convergent multi-step reaction of a dissymmetric simple organic precursor

YQ Zhang, M Paszkiewicz, P Du, L Zhang, T Lin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Interfacial supramolecular self-assembly represents a powerful tool for constructing regular
and quasicrystalline materials. In particular, complex two-dimensional molecular …

A STM perspective on covalent intermolecular coupling reactions on surfaces

M Lackinger, WM Heckl - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract'Covalent self-assembly', ie the on-surface synthesis of covalent organic aggregates
and networks, has received considerable attention. This review covers recent scanning …

Tailoring bicomponent supramolecular nanoporous networks: phase segregation, polymorphism, and glasses at the solid− liquid interface

CA Palma, J Bjork, M Bonini, MS Dyer… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We study the formation of four supramolecular bicomponent networks based on four linear
modules (linkers) bridging melamine via triple hydrogen-bonds. We explore at the …

Structural transformation of two-dimensional metal–organic coordination networks driven by intrinsic in-plane compression

J Liu, T Lin, Z Shi, F Xia, L Dong, PN Liu… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The coordination assembly of 1, 3, 5-trispyridylbenzene with Cu on a Au (111) surface has
been investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. An …