Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Combining high-resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy and first-principles simulations to identify halogen bonding

  • James Lawrence,
  • Gabriele C. Sosso,
  • Luka Đorđević,
  • Harry Pinfold,
  • Davide Bonifazi,
  • Giovanni Costantini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15898-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) is commonly used to study 2D molecular self-assembly but is not always enough to fully solve a supramolecular structure. Here, the authors combine a high-resolution version of STM with first-principles simulations to precisely identify halogen bonding in polycyclic aromatic molecules.