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Construction of molecular regular tessellations on a Cu(111) surface
Zhijie Tao1, Tao Wang, Daoxiong Wu
1National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230029, China. jfzhu@ustc.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Three types of molecular regular tessellations, i.e., hexagonal, square and triangular tessellations, were constructed on Cu(111) by using 4,4'-dihydroxydiphenyl as the precursor through molecular assembly. These tessellations are stabilized by multiple intermolecular hydrogen bonds and the proportion of each tessellation can be tuned by thermal treatment.
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