One basic principle regulating self-assembly is associated with the asymmetry of constituent
building blocks or packing models. Using asymmetry to manipulate molecular-level devices …

Chirality is a basic characteristic of living matter and nature. During the evolution of life on
our planet, nature has favored one kind of chirality, thereby selecting the l-amino acids (with …

Creation of polymers comprised of repeat units that can create topologically planar
macromolecules (rather than linear) has been the topic of several recent studies in the field …

Subnanometer materials (SNMs) refer to nanomaterials with a feature size close to 1 nm,
similar to the diameter of a single polymer, DNA strand, and a single cluster/unit cell. The …

With the adsorption of larger molecules being increasingly tackled by surface scientists, the
aspect of chirality often plays a role. This paper gives a topical review of molecular chirality …

Chirality evolution from molecule levels to the nanoscale in an achiral system is a
fundamental issue that remains undiscovered. Here, we report the assembly of …

In the present review we survey the main advances made in recent years on the
understanding of chemical chirality at solid surfaces. Chirality is an important topic, made …

This tutorial review summarises the molecular and atomic-level insights on the nature of
surface chirality that have recently been obtained from creating molecular monolayers at …

Two-dimensional (2D) supramolecular self-assembly at liquid–solid interfaces is a
thermodynamically complex process producing a variety of structures. The formation of …

The surface-assisted bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), which
consists of the radical polymerization of precursors followed by dehydrogenation, has …