Molecular jigsaw: pattern diversity encoded by elementary geometrical features

C Rohr1, M Balbás Gambra, K Gruber

  • 1Center for NanoScience (CeNS) and Walther-Meissner-Institute of Low Temperature Research of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Walther-Meissner-Strasse 8, 85748 Garching, Germany.

Nano Letters
|February 18, 2010
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