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 …

Reactivity of metal clusters

Z Luo, AW Castleman Jr, SN Khanna - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
We summarize here the research advances on the reactivity of metal clusters. After a simple
introduction of apparatuses used for gas-phase cluster reactions, we focus on the reactivity …

The qPlus sensor, a powerful core for the atomic force microscope

FJ Giessibl - Review of scientific instruments, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was introduced in 1986 and has since made its way into
surface science, nanoscience, chemistry, biology, and material science as an imaging and …

Synthesis and characterization of triangulene

N Pavliček, A Mistry, Z Majzik, N Moll, G Meyer… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Triangulene, the smallest triplet-ground-state polybenzenoid (also known as Clar's
hydrocarbon), has been an enigmatic molecule ever since its existence was first …

On-surface synthesis of aromatic cyclo [10] carbon and cyclo [14] carbon

L Sun, W Zheng, W Gao, F Kang, M Zhao, W Xu - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
All-carbon materials based on sp 2-hybridized atoms, such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes
and graphene, have been much explored due to their remarkable physicochemical …

Selectivity in single-molecule reactions by tip-induced redox chemistry

F Albrecht, S Fatayer, I Pozo, I Tavernelli, J Repp… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Controlling selectivity of reactions is an ongoing quest in chemistry. In this work, we
demonstrate reversible and selective bond formation and dissociation promoted by tip …

Atomically precise bottom-up synthesis of π-extended [5] triangulene

J Su, M Telychko, P Hu, G Macam, P Mutombo… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The zigzag-edged triangular graphene molecules (ZTGMs) have been predicted to host
ferromagnetically coupled edge states with the net spin scaling with the molecular size …

Plasmonic optical tweezers for particle manipulation: principles, methods, and applications

Y Ren, Q Chen, M He, X Zhang, H Qi, Y Yan - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

Large magnetic exchange coupling in rhombus-shaped nanographenes with zigzag periphery

S Mishra, X Yao, Q Chen, K Eimre, O Gröning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nanographenes with zigzag edges are predicted to manifest non-trivial π-magnetism
resulting from the interplay of concurrent electronic effects, such as hybridization of localized …

Overview of asphaltene nanostructures and thermodynamic applications

B Schuler, Y Zhang, F Liu, AE Pomerantz… - Energy & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Previously, asphaltene science had been hindered by many significant uncertainties
regarding molecular weight, molecular structure, and nanocolloidal characteristics in …