Tuning the formation of discrete coordination nanostructures

Joerg Meyer; Anja Nickel; Robin Ohmann; Lokamani; Cormac Toher; Dmitry A. Ryndyk; Yves Garmshausen; Stefan Hecht; Francesca Moresco; Gianaurelio Cuniberti

doi:10.1039/C5CC02723C

Tuning the formation of discrete coordination nanostructures†

Joerg Meyer,^a Anja Nickel,^a Robin Ohmann,‡^a Lokamani,^a Cormac Toher,§^a Dmitry A. Ryndyk,^a Yves Garmshausen,^b Stefan Hecht,^b Francesca Moresco*^a and Gianaurelio Cuniberti^ac

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^a Institute for Materials Science, Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, and Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
E-mail: francesca.moresco@tu-dresden.de

^b Department of Chemistry & IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany

^c Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCCMS), TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

Abstract

Novel surface coordination nanostructures based on cyanosexiphenyl molecules are assembled on a gold surface and investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory. Their formation can be tuned by varying the surface temperature during deposition. Diffusing gold adatoms act as coordination centers for the cyano groups present on one end of the nonsymmetrical molecules.

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Tuning the formation of discrete coordination nanostructures†

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