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Published on: March 3, 2010
Synthesis and self-assembly of giant porphyrin discs
Marga C Lensen1, Sandra J T van Dingenen, Johannes A A W Elemans
1NSRIM Center, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
A giant porphyrin disc (M(w)= 15 kDa) has been synthesized and its self-assembly behaviour at an interface studied by liquid STM which reveals the presence of huge domains (>400 x 400 nm2) of very well ordered and molecularly resolved columnar stacks.

