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High Throughput Analysis of Liquid Droplet Impacts
Published on: March 6, 2020
Phase selectivity triggered by nanoconfinement: the impact of corral dimensions
Yi Hu1, Ana M Bragança, Lander Verstraete
1Department of Chemistry, Division of Molecular Imaging and Photonics, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium. steven.defeyter@kuleuven.be.
Abstract:
By using a novel protocol to spatially confine molecules in well-defined small 2D areas, the so-called nanocorrals, we show using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) how this kind of confinement affects self-assembled molecular network (SAMN) formation at a liquid-solid interface. The 2D lateral confinement, imposed by the size of the nanocorrals, has a clear impact on the phase selectivity of a molecule that can form both low-density and high-density SAMNs, the high-density phase being promoted by the confinement.
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