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Surface Functionalization of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Improved Moisture Resistance
Published on: September 5, 2018
Anchoring of organic molecules to a metal surface: HtBDC on Cu(110)
M Schunack1, L Petersen, A Kühnle
1CAMP and Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Abstract:
The interaction of largish molecules with metal surfaces has been studied by combining the imaging and manipulation capabilities of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). At the atomic scale, the STM results directly reveal that the adsorption of a largish organic molecule can induce a restructuring of a metal surface underneath. This restructuring anchors the molecules on the substrate and is the driving force for a self-assembly process of the molecules into characteristic molecular double rows.
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