Ordering fullerenes at the nanometer scale on solid surfaces

L Sanchez, R Otero, JM Gallego, R Miranda… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The coverage of solid surfaces with atoms and, more recently, with (organic) molecules is a
broad scope area that has received the attention of the scientific community during recent …

Contact to single atoms and molecules with the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope

J Kröger, N Néel, L Limot - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments using the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope to contact atoms and
molecules adsorbed on surfaces are reviewed. Conductance quantization upon forming or …

Steering molecular organization and host–guest interactions using two-dimensional nanoporous coordination systems

S Stepanow, M Lingenfelder, A Dmitriev, H Spillmann… - Nature materials, 2004 - nature.com
Metal–organic coordination networks (MOCNs) have attracted wide interest because they
provide a novel route towards porous materials that may find applications in molecular …

Controlled Contact to a Molecule

N Néel, J Kröger, L Limot, T Frederiksen, M Brandbyge… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
The tip of a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope is approached towards a C 60
molecule adsorbed at a pentagon-hexagon bond on Cu (100) to form a tip-molecule contact …

Site‐selective fabrication of two‐dimensional fullerene arrays by using a supramolecular template at the liquid‐solid interface

M Li, K Deng, SB Lei, YL Yang, TS Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Fullerenes have attracted a great deal of attention since their discovery [1] because of their
unique physical and chemical properties and potential applications.[2] Many applications …

Structural relaxation of adlayers in the presence of adsorbate-induced reconstruction:

WW Pai, CL Hsu, MC Lin, KC Lin, TB Tang - Physical Review B, 2004 - APS
We revisit submonolayer growth of C 60 on Cu (111) by scanning tunneling microscopy
(STM), with emphasis on the formation of higher-order commensurate metastable states …

Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of monolayers on Au(111)

JA Gardener, GAD Briggs, MR Castell - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2009 - APS
We report a scanning tunneling microscopy study of close packed C 60 monolayers on Au
(111) upon post-deposition annealing. Within these structures the C 60 molecules appear …

Orientation of individual molecules adsorbed on Cu(111): Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional calculations

JA Larsson, SD Elliott, JC Greer, J Repp, G Meyer… - Physical Review B …, 2008 - APS
Density functional theory (DFT) and low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)
have been combined to examine the bonding of individual C 60 molecules on Cu (111) …

Spatially resolved conductance of oriented C60

G Schull, N Néel, M Becker, J Kröger… - New Journal of …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The conductance of oriented C 60 molecules on Au (111) and Cu (100) was investigated
using a low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscope. A remarkable dependence of …

Controlled single atom and single molecule contacts

R Berndt, J Kröger, N Néel, G Schull - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) may be used to prepare contacts to single atoms
or molecules on surfaces and to investigate the transport of electrons through these …