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 …

Graphene nanoribbons hold great promise for future applications in nanoelectronic devices,
as they may combine the excellent electronic properties of graphene with the opening of an …

With the rapid development of scanning probe microscopy, it has become possible to study
polymerization processes on suitable surfaces at the atomic level and in real space. In the …

Understanding how molecules interact to form large-scale hierarchical structures on
surfaces holds promise for building designer nanoscale constructs with defined chemical …

Contributing to the need for new graphene nanoribbon (GNR) structures that can be
synthesized with atomic precision, we have designed a reactant that renders chiral (3, 1) …

We report on the atomic structure of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) formed via on-surface
synthesis from 10, 10′-dibromo-9, 9′-bianthryl (DBBA) precursors on Cu (111). By means …

On-surface synthesis with molecular precursors has emerged as the de facto route to
atomically well-defined graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with controlled zigzag and armchair …

The fabrication of atomically precise structures with designer electronic properties is one of
the emerging topics in condensed matter physics. The required level of structural control can …

We use self-assembly to fabricate and to connect precise graphene nanoribbons end to end.
Combining scanning tunneling microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and density functional …

On-surface synthesis has emerged in the last decade as a method to create graphene
nanoribbons (GNRs) with atomic precision. The underlying premise of this bottom-up …