Nano-architectures by covalent assembly of molecular building blocks

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 687-691

  Grill, Leonhard ^a   Dyer, Matthew ^b   Lafferentz, Leif ^a   Persson, Mats ^b   Peters, Maike V ^c   Hecht, Stefan ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MOLECULES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ATOMIC-SCALE WIRES; CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY; COVALENT ASSEMBLIES; COVALENT INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR BUILDING BLOCKS; MOLECULAR NANOSTRUCTURES; SUPPORTING SURFACES; THERMAL ACTIVATION;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

NANOMATERIAL; PORPHYRIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COVALENT BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35948972833     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.346     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Joachim, C., Gimzewski, J. K. & Aviram, A. Electronics using hybrid-molecular and mono-molecular devices. Nature 408, 541-548 (2000).
2. Heath, J. R. & Ratner, M. A. Molecular electronics. Physics Today 56, 43-49 (2003).
3. Nitzan, A. & Ratner, M. A. Electron transport in molecular wire junctions. Science 300, 1384-1389 (2003).
4. Cote, A. P. et al. Porous, crystalline, covalent organic frameworks. Science 310, 1166-1170 (2005).
5. Whitesides, G. M. & Grzybowski, B. Self-assembly at all scales. Science 295, 2418-2421 (2002).
6. Theobald, J. A., Oxtoby, N. S., Phillips, M. A., Champness, N. R. & Beton, P. H. Controlling molecular deposition and layer structure with supramolecular surface assemblies. Nature 424, 1029-1031 (2003).
7. Barth, J. V., Costantini, G. & Kern, K. Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces. Nature 437, 671-679 (2005).
8. Barth, J. V., Weckesser, J., Lin, N., Dmitriev, A. & Kern, K. Supramolecular architectures and nanostructures at metal surfaces. Appl. Phys. A 76, 645-652 (2003).
9. Pawin, G., Wong, K. L., Kwon, K.-Y. & Bartels, L. A homomolecular porous network at a Cu(111) surface. Science 313, 961-962 (2006).
10. van Hameren, R. et al. Macroscopic hierarchical surface patterning of porphyrin trimers via self-assembly and dewetting. Science 314, 1433-1436 (2006).
11. Stöhr, M. et al. Controlling molecular assembly in two dimensions: The concentration dependence of thermally induced 2D aggregation of molecules on a metal surface. Angew. Chem. Int. Edn 44, 7394-7398 (2005).
12. Keeling, D. L. et al. Assembly and processing of hydrogen bond induced supramolecular nanostructures. Nano Lett. 3, 9-12 (2003).
13. Yokoyama, T., Yokoyama, S., Kamikado, T., Okuno, Y. & Mashiko, S. Selective assembly on a surface of supramolecular aggregates with controlled size and shape. Nature 413, 619-621 (2001).
14. Rabe, J. P. & Buchholz, S. Commensurability and mobility in two-dimensional molecular patterns on graphite. Science 253, 424-427 (1991).
15. Lin, N., Dmitriev, A., Weckesser, J., Barth, J. V. & Kern, K. Real-time single-molecule imaging of the formation and dynamics of coordination compounds. Angew. Chem. Int. Edn 41, 4779-4783 (2002).
16. Hla, S. W., Bartels, L., Meyer, G. & Rieder, K.-H. Inducing all steps of a chemical reaction with the scanning tunneling microscope tip: towards single molecule engineering. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2777-2780 (2000).
17. Hla, S.-W., Meyer, G. & Rieder, K.-H. Selective bond breaking of single iodobenzene molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope tip. Chem. Phys. Lett. 370, 431-436 (2003).
18. Spillmann, H. et al. A two-dimensional porphyrin-based porous network featuring communicating cavities for the templated complexation of fullerenes. Adv. Mater. 18, 275-279 (2006).
19. Iancu, V., Deshpande, A. & Hla, S.-W. Manipulation of the Kondo effect via two-dimensional molecular assembly. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266603 (2006).
20. Kresse, G. & Furthmüller, J. Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set. Phys. Rev. B 54, 11169-11186 (1996).
21. Zambelli, T. et al. Deposition of large organic molecules in ultra-high vacuum: A comparison between thermal sublimation and pulse-injection. Int. J. Nanosci. 3, 331-341 (2004).
22. Gottfried, J. M., Flechtner, K., Kretschmann, A., Lukasczyk, T. & Steinrück, H.-P. Direct synthesis of a metalloporphyrin complex on a surface. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 5644-5645 (2006).