Principles of molecular assemblies leading to molecular nanostructures

KS Mali, S De Feyter - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Self-assembled physisorbed monolayers consist of regular two-dimensional arrays of
molecules. Two-dimensional self-assembly of organic and metal–organic building blocks is …

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 …

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 …

Two-dimensional self-assembled molecular structures formed by the competition of van der Waals forces and dipole–dipole interactions

L Xu, X Miao, X Ying, W Deng - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The self-assembly of 2, 7-bis (10-ethoxycarbonyl-decyloxy)-9-fluorenone (BEF) has been
investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy at the liquid/solid interface. The coexistence …

Surface adatom mediated structural transformation in bromoarene monolayers: precursor phases in surface Ullmann reaction

Q Fan, L Liu, J Dai, T Wang, H Ju, J Zhao, J Kuttner… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Structural transformations of supramolecular systems triggered by external stimuli maintain
great potential for application in the fabrication of molecular storage devices. Using …

Dynamic surface-assisted assembly behaviours mediated by external stimuli

X Peng, F Zhao, Y Peng, J Li, Q Zeng - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular self-assembly behaviors on solid substrates have been widely investigated
in the last few decades. Owing to the complexity of interfacial assembly systems, the precise …

Leveraging the relative strengths of hydrogen and halogen bonds to control nanostructures

Y Wang, Y Zheng, X Miao, W Deng, Q Yuan - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2023 - Elsevier
Halogen bonds (XBs) and hydrogen bonds (HBs) present a straightforward yet effective
strategy for controlling nanostructure morphology. The self-assembled nanopattern …

Alkyl chain length regulated diverse 2D polymorphic self-assembly of benzothiadiazole-based π-conjugated fluorophore

M Ke, T Ma, Y Wang, X Zeng, X Miao, X Cheng… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Structural diversity induced by the chain-length effect in the field of two-dimensional
molecular self-assembly has attracted lots of attention. In this study, the self-assembly …

Dipole-Controlled Self-Assembly of 2,7-Bis(n-alkoxy)-9-fluorenone: Odd–Even and Chain-Length Effects

L Xu, X Miao, B Zha, K Miao… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Fluorenone derivatives (F–OC n) with various lengths of peripheral alkyl chains (with carbon
numbers of n= 12–18) were synthesized, and their self-assembled adlayers were …

A size, shape and concentration controlled self-assembling structure with host–guest recognition at the liquid–solid interface studied by STM

M Shen, Z Luo, S Zhang, S Wang, L Cao, Y Geng… - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present investigation, we reported the fabrication of host networks formed by two
newly prepared phenanthrene-butadiynylene macrocycles (PBMs) at the liquid–solid …