Conspectus Carbon-based nanostructures have attracted tremendous interest because of
their versatile and tunable properties, which depend on the bonding type of the constituting …

Conspectus Chemical reactions may take place in a pure phase of gas or liquid or at the
interface of two phases (gas–solid or liquid–solid). Recently, the emerging field of “surface …

Bottom-up strategies can be effectively implemented for the fabrication of atomically precise
graphene nanoribbons. Recently, using 10, 10′-dibromo-9, 9′-bianthracene (DBBA) as a …

By means of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), complementary density functional
theory (DFT) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) we investigate the binding and …

On-surface synthesis has been one of the hottest research fields in surface science in the
last decade, owing to its great potential for bottom-up synthesis of functional molecules and …

We report the on-surface formation of Au-directed heptacene organometallic complexes on
a Au (111) template in an ultrahigh vacuum environment. Successive thermal annealing …

The in-depth knowledge about on-surface reaction mechanisms is crucial for the tailor-made
design of covalently bonded organic frameworks, for applications such as nanoelectronic or …

Surface-confined polymerization via Ullmann coupling is a promising route to create one-
and two-dimensional covalent π-conjugated structures, including the bottom-up growth of …

Ullmann coupling of 4‐bromobiphenyl thermally catalyzed on Ag (111), Cu (111), and Cu
(100) surfaces was scrutinized by scanning tunneling microscopy as well as theoretical …

We investigate the bottom-up growth of N= 7 armchair graphene nanoribbons (7-AGNRs)
from the 10, 10′-dibromo-9, 9′-bianthracene (DBBA) molecules on Ag (111) with the …