Strain-relief pattern as guide for the formation of surface-supported bimolecular nanoribbons

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Ait Mansour K ^a,b   Canas Ventura M E ^a,d   Ruffieux, P ^a   Jaafar, R ^a   Bieri, M ^a   Rieger, R ^c   Mullen K ^c   Fasel, R ^a   Groning O ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END-GROUP FUNCTIONALITY; INTERMOLECULAR HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR BUILDING BLOCKS; NANORIBBONS; RELIEF PATTERNS; SITE-SPECIFIC;

HYDROGEN;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 70349904275     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3240891     Document Type: Article

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