Ordering, flexibility and frustration in arrays of porphyrin nanorings

Alex Summerfield; Matteo Baldoni; Dmitry V. Kondratuk; Harry L. Anderson; Stephen Whitelam; Juan P. Garrahan; Elena Besley; Peter H. Beton

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11009-y

Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Ordering, flexibility and frustration in arrays of porphyrin nanorings

Alex Summerfield,
Matteo Baldoni,
Dmitry V. Kondratuk,
Harry L. Anderson,
Stephen Whitelam,
Juan P. Garrahan,
Elena Besley,
Peter H. Beton

Affiliations

Alex Summerfield: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham
Matteo Baldoni: School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham
Dmitry V. Kondratuk: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Harry L. Anderson: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Stephen Whitelam: Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Juan P. Garrahan: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham
Elena Besley: School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham
Peter H. Beton: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11009-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The packing of spheres, disks and other simple shapes into arrays on surfaces is relevant to many problems across the physical sciences. Here the authors study the influence of flexibility and reduced symmetry on the packing of porphyrin nanorings which are deposited from solution onto a graphite surface.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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