Nanofabrication has been utilized to manufacture one-, two-, and three-dimensional
functional nanostructures for applications such as electronics, sensors, and photonic …

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) monolayers have attracted considerable interest as
atomically thin sp 2-hybridized sheets that are readily synthesized on various metal …

Metal–organic coordination structures are materials comprising reticular metal centers and
organic linkers in which the two constituents bind with each other via metal–ligand …

On-surface synthesis is the bottom-up construction of covalent bonds between molecular
building blocks, which has been greatly developed during the past decade. Dozens of …

Van der Waals forces are among the weakest, yet most decisive interactions governing
condensation and aggregation processes and the phase behaviour of atomic and molecular …

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

Crystal nucleation and growth is a fundamental pillar of materials design. To advance our
understanding of the underlying mechanisms, in situ visual observation plays an important …

Halogen bonding (HB) has emerged as a promising route for designing supramolecular
assemblies due to its directional nature and versatility in modifying interactions through the …

Quantum effects that arise from confinement of electronic states have been extensively
studied for the surface states of noble metals. Utilizing small artificial structures for …

The engineering of nanoarchitectures to achieve tailored properties relevant for
macroscopic devices is a key motivation of organometallic surface science. To this end …