Controlling a chemical coupling reaction on a surface: tools and strategies for on-surface synthesis

S Clair, DG de Oteyza - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising research field aimed at
creating new organic materials. A large number of chemical reactions have been …

Width-dependent band gap in armchair graphene nanoribbons reveals Fermi level pinning on Au (111)

N Merino-Díez, A Garcia-Lekue… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report the energy level alignment evolution of valence and conduction bands of armchair-
oriented graphene nanoribbons (aGNR) as their band gap shrinks with increasing width. We …

Surface-assisted Ullmann coupling

M Lackinger - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface-assisted Ullmann coupling is the workhorse of on-surfaces synthesis. Among the
various couplings that were successfully transferred from solution to solid surfaces, Ullmann …

Substrate-independent growth of atomically precise chiral graphene nanoribbons

DG de Oteyza, A García-Lekue, M Vilas-Varela… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Contributing to the need for new graphene nanoribbon (GNR) structures that can be
synthesized with atomic precision, we have designed a reactant that renders chiral (3, 1) …

Atomically sharp lateral superlattice heterojunctions built‐in nitrogen‐doped nanoporous graphene

M Tenorio, C Moreno, P Febrer… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanometer scale lateral heterostructures with atomically sharp band discontinuities can be
conceived as the 2D analogues of vertical Van der Waals heterostructures, where pristine …

On-surface synthesis with atomic hydrogen

R Zuzak, A Jančařík, A Gourdon, M Szymonski… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Surface-assisted synthesis has become a powerful approach for generation of molecular
nanostructures, which could not be obtained via traditional solution chemistry. Nowadays …

Confined synthesis and thermal conductivity of deuterated graphene nanoribbons

Y Chen, W Zhang, K Tang, K Cao, L Shi, G Yang - Carbon, 2025 - Elsevier
In contrast to gapless graphene, armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) exhibit a width-
dependent band gap. Theoretical calculations predicted that the thermal conductivity of …

Electronic Structure Tunability by Periodic meta-Ligand Spacing in One-Dimensional Organic Semiconductors

I Piquero-Zulaica, A Garcia-Lekue, L Colazzo… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Designing molecular organic semiconductors with distinct frontier orbitals is key for the
development of devices with desirable properties. Generating defined organic …

Boron-doped graphene nanoribbons: electronic structure and Raman fingerprint

BV Senkovskiy, DY Usachov, AV Fedorov… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We investigate the electronic and vibrational properties of bottom-up synthesized aligned
armchair graphene nanoribbons of N= 7 carbon atoms width periodically doped by …

Π band dispersion along conjugated organic nanowires synthesized on a metal oxide semiconductor

G Vasseur, M Abadia, LA Miccio, J Brede… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Surface-confined dehalogenation reactions are versatile bottom-up approaches for the
synthesis of carbon-based nanostructures with predefined chemical properties. However, for …