Issue 55, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Island shapes and aggregation steered by the geometry of the substrate lattice†

M. B. Casu,*a   S.-A. Savu,a   B.-E. Schuster,a   I. Biswas,a   C. Raisch,a   H. Marchetto,b   Th. Schmidtb  and  T. Chasséa  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
E-mail: benedetta.casu@uni-tuebingen

b Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Department of Chemical Physics, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

Abstract

We find that island shapes and aggregation in diindenoperylene deposited on Au(100), Au(110), and Au(111) single crystals are steered by the anisotropy due to the lattice geometry of the substrate. This phenomenon may be exploited as a tool for molecular patterning of surfaces.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC31339A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Feb 2012
Accepted
16 May 2012
First published
17 May 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 6957-6959

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Island shapes and aggregation steered by the geometry of the substrate lattice

M. B. Casu, S.-A. Savu, B.-E. Schuster, I. Biswas, C. Raisch, H. Marchetto, Th. Schmidt and T. Chassé, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6957 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC31339A

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