Lock-and-key effect in the surface diffusion of large organic molecules probed by stm

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 779-782

  Otero, Roberto ^a   Hummelink, Frauke ^a   Sato, Fernando ^b   Legoas, Sergio B ^b   Thostrup, Peter ^a   Leegsgaard, Erik ^a   Stensgaard, Ivan ^a   Galvao, Douglas S ^b   Besenbacher, Flemming ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MOLECULAR PROBES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 16544365437     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1243     Document Type: Article

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