Functionalized truxenes: Adsorption and diffusion of single molecules on the KBr(001) surface

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3429-3439

  Such, Bartosz ^a,d   Trevethan, Thomas ^b,e   Glatzel, Thilo ^a   Kawai, Shigeki ^a   Zimmerli, Lars ^a   Meyer, Ernst ^a   Shluger, Alexander L ^b,e   Amijs, Catelijne H M ^c   De Mendoza, Paula ^c   Echavarren, Antonio M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA ICIQ   (Spain)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Diffusion; KBr; Molecular dynamics; Truxenes

Indexed keywords

AFM; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; IONIC SURFACES; KBR; KINK SITES; MOLECULAR RESOLUTION; NANO SCALE; NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE; NON-CONTACT; ORGANIC MOLECULES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE MOLECULE; STEP EDGE; SURFACE FEATURE; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRUXENE; TRUXENES;

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ATOMS;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBON;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77955869815     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100424g     Document Type: Article

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