Molecular tectonics based nanopatterning of interfaces with 2D metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)

The nanostructuring of the graphite surface with 2D coordination networks, based on a combination of an acentric porphyrin tecton bearing two divergently oriented monodentate pyridyl units and a CoCl2 metallatecton, behaving as a four connecting node, was achieved at the solid-liquid interface and characterized by scanning tunnelling microscopy.