Self-assembly of metal–organic coordination structures on surfaces

L Dong, ZA Gao, N Lin - Progress in Surface Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Metal–organic coordination structures are materials comprising reticular metal centers and
organic linkers in which the two constituents bind with each other via metal–ligand …

Creating designer quantum states of matter atom-by-atom

AA Khajetoorians, D Wegner, AF Otte, I Swart - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Designer Dirac fermions and topological phases in molecular graphene

KK Gomes, W Mar, W Ko, F Guinea, HC Manoharan - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The observation of massless Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene has generated a new
area of science and technology seeking to harness charge carriers that behave …

Recent progresses of quantum confinement in graphene quantum dots

SY Li, L He - Frontiers of Physics, 2022 - Springer
Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) not only have potential applications on spin qubit, but also
serve as essential platforms to study the fundamental properties of Dirac fermions, such as …

Realization of flat band with possible nontrivial topology in electronic Kagome lattice

Z Li, J Zhuang, L Wang, H Feng, Q Gao, X Xu… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The energy dispersion of fermions or bosons vanishes in momentum space if destructive
quantum interference occurs in a frustrated Kagome lattice with only nearest-neighbor …

On-surface route for producing planar nanographenes with azulene moieties

J Hieulle, E Carbonell-Sanroma, M Vilas-Varela… - Nano Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Large aromatic carbon nanostructures are cornerstone materials due to their increasingly
active role in functional devices, but their synthesis in solution encounters size and shape …

Control and induction of surface-confined homochiral porous molecular networks

K Tahara, H Yamaga, E Ghijsens, K Inukai… - Nature Chemistry, 2011 - nature.com
Homochirality is essential to many biological systems, and plays a pivotal role in various
technological applications. The generation of homochirality and an understanding of its …

Transmetalation in Surface-Confined Single-Layer Organometallic Networks with Alkynyl–Metal–Alkynyl Linkages

W Zhao, F Haag, I Piquero-Zulaica, ZM Abd El-Fattah… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Transmetalation represents an appealing strategy toward fabricating and tuning functional
metal–organic polymers and frameworks for diverse applications. In particular, building two …

Artificial kagome lattices of Shockley surface states patterned by halogen hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks

R Yin, X Zhu, Q Fu, T Hu, L Wan, Y Wu, Y Liang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial electronic kagome lattices may emerge from electronic potential landscapes using
customized structures with exotic supersymmetries, benefiting from the confinement of …

Engineering quantum states and electronic landscapes through surface molecular nanoarchitectures

I Piquero-Zulaica, J Lobo-Checa, ZMA El-Fattah… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Surfaces are at the frontier of every known solid. They provide versatile supports for
functional nanostructures and mediate essential physicochemical processes. Intimately …