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Planar and Three-Dimensional Printing of Conductive Inks
Published on: December 9, 2011
Three-dimensional hydrogen bonding between Landers and planar molecules facilitated by electrostatic interactions
Miao Yu1, Youness Benjalal, Chong Chen
1Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark. trolle@inano.au.dk.
Abstract:
Using a combination of UHV-STM and molecular mechanics calculations, we investigate the surface self-assembly of a complex multi-component metal-molecule system with synergistic non-covalent interactions. Hydrogen bonding between three-dimensional Lander-DAT molecules and planar PTCDI molecules, adsorbed closer to the surface, is found to be facilitated by electrostatic interactions between co-adsorbed Ni adatoms and the flexible molecular DAT groups.
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