Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Thermal control of sequential on-surface transformation of a hydrocarbon molecule on a copper surface

  • Shigeki Kawai,
  • Ville Haapasilta,
  • Benjamin D. Lindner,
  • Kazukuni Tahara,
  • Peter Spijker,
  • Jeroen A. Buitendijk,
  • Rémy Pawlak,
  • Tobias Meier,
  • Yoshito Tobe,
  • Adam S. Foster,
  • Ernst Meyer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12711
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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On-surface chemical reactions provide an attractive route for making tailored nanostructures. Here the authors present a thermally-controlled sequential on-surface transformation of a hydrocarbon molecule, characterized via high-resolution atomic force microscopy and density functional theory calculations.