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 …

With the rapid development of scanning probe microscopy, it has become possible to study
polymerization processes on suitable surfaces at the atomic level and in real space. In the …

Two-dimensional materials with high charge carrier mobility and tunable band gaps have
attracted intense research effort for their potential use in nanoelectronics. Two-dimensional …

Synthetic polymers exhibit diverse and useful properties and influence most aspects of
modern life. Many polymerization methods provide linear or branched macromolecules …

Surface covalent organic frameworks (SCOFs), featured by atomic thick sheet with
covalently bonded organic building units, are promised to possess unique properties …

During the last decade, interest on the growth and self-assembly of organic molecular
species on solid surfaces spread over the scientific community, largely motivated by the …

A key challenge in the field of nanotechnology, in particular in the design of molecular
machines, novel materials or molecular electronics, is the bottom-up construction of …

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

The covalent linking of acetylenes presents an important route for the fabrication of novel
carbon-based scaffolds and two-dimensional materials distinct from graphene. To date few …

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 …