Advances in high-resolution and spin-resolved scanning tunnelling microscopy, as well as
atomic-scale manipulation, have enabled the bottom-up, atom-by-atom creation and …

Halogen bonds, which provide an intermolecular interaction with moderate strength and
high directionality, have emerged as a promising tool in the repertoire of non‐covalent …

Artificial electronic kagome lattices may emerge from electronic potential landscapes using
customized structures with exotic supersymmetries, benefiting from the confinement of …

Advances in gas sensing devices are urgently needed to reduce air pollution and control
human health. In this regard, the progress in the development of low-dimensional …

Surfaces are at the frontier of every known solid. They provide versatile supports for
functional nanostructures and mediate essential physicochemical processes. Intimately …

On-surface synthesis has revealed remarkable potential in the fabrication of atomically
precise nanographenes. However, surface-assisted synthesis often involves multiple-step …

Transmetalation represents an appealing strategy toward fabricating and tuning functional
metal–organic polymers and frameworks for diverse applications. In particular, building two …

Halogen-mediated interactions play an important role in molecular recognition and
crystallization in many chemical and biological systems, whereas their effect on homochiral …

Conformational arrangements within nanostructures play a crucial role in sha** the
overall configuration and determining the properties, for example in covalent/metal organic …

Isolated flat bands are known to host various strongly correlated phases due to the
enhanced Coulomb interactions when the flat bands are gapped from dispersive bands …