Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Polycyclic aromatic chains on metals and insulating layers by repetitive [3+2] cycloadditions

  • Alexander Riss,
  • Marcus Richter,
  • Alejandro Pérez Paz,
  • Xiao-Ye Wang,
  • Rajesh Raju,
  • Yuanqin He,
  • Jacob Ducke,
  • Eduardo Corral,
  • Michael Wuttke,
  • Knud Seufert,
  • Manuela Garnica,
  • Angel Rubio,
  • Johannes V. Barth,
  • Akimitsu Narita,
  • Klaus Müllen,
  • Reinhard Berger,
  • Xinliang Feng,
  • Carlos-Andres Palma,
  • Willi Auwärter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15210-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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A critical milestone for the advancement of nanoscale organic circuitry is the fabrication of well-defined conjugated polymers on non-metal substrates. Here, the authors demonstrate extended polycyclic aromatic chains from repetitive cycloadditions which form not only on metals, but also on boron nitride layers and in the solid state.