The adsorption of large organic molecules on surfaces has recently been the subject of
intensive investigation, both because of the molecules' intrinsic physical and chemical …

▪ Abstract Organic molecules adsorbed on solid surfaces display a fascinating variety of new
physical and chemical phenomena ranging from self-assembly and molecular recognition to …

The interaction of largish molecules with metal surfaces has been studied by combining the
imaging and manipulation capabilities of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). At the …

The development of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) by Binnig and Rohrer1 was
extremely important because, for the first time, it enabled the imaging of solid surfaces with …

Adsorbate interactions and reactions on metal surfaces have been investigated using
scanning tunneling microscopy. The manners in which adsorbates perturb the surface …

Investigations of long-chain hydrocarbon and substituted hydrocarbon materials
physisorbed at the liquid− solid interface have provided a particularly fruitful area of …

Monolayer films of several primary substituted hydrocarbons CH3 (CH2) n CH2X (X= CH3,
OH, NH2, SH, Cl, Br, I; n= 16− 30) have been imaged on graphite at the solution− substrate …

One of the most remarkable and exciting achievements in the field of scanning probe
microscopy (SPM) in the last years is the unprecedented sub-molecular resolution of both …

A nanoscale understanding of the complex dynamics of large molecules at surfaces is
essential for the bottom-up design of molecular nanostructures,,,,,,,. Here we show that we …

On metallic and semiconductor surfaces functional nanostructures can be built with atomic
scale precision using the tip of an atomic force microscope/scanning tunneling microscope …