Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Probing the crystallographic orientation of two-dimensional atomic crystals with supramolecular self-assembly

  • Jinghui Wang,
  • Hongde Yu,
  • Xu Zhou,
  • Xiaozhi Liu,
  • Renjie Zhang,
  • Zhixing Lu,
  • Jingying Zheng,
  • Lin Gu,
  • Kaihui Liu,
  • Dong Wang,
  • Liying Jiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00329-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.