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Oxygen-induced self-assembly of quaterphenyl molecules on metal surfaces
Qiang Sun1, Chi Zhang, Liangliang Cai
1College of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Caoan Road 4800, Shanghai 201804, P. R. China. xuwei@tongji.edu.cn.
Abstract:
From high-resolution UHV-STM imaging and DFT calculations we have demonstrated a novel method to construct well-ordered molecular nanostructures of an unfunctionalized aromatic molecule (4Ph) on both Ag(110) and Cu(110) by introducing oxygen molecules.

