Nature Communications (Aug 2017)
Probing the crystallographic orientation of two-dimensional atomic crystals with supramolecular self-assembly
Abstract
Identifying the crystallographic orientations of 2D materials is important, but methods to do so are typically destructive. Here, the authors show that the orientational dependency of self-assembled nanoribbons of oleamide molecules can be used to non-invasively probe the lattice orientations of various 2D substrates.