Supramolecular self-assembly driven by electrostatic repulsion: The 1D aggregation of Rubrene Pentagons on Au(111)

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7545-7551

  Tomba, Giulia ^a,b,f   Stengel, Massimiliano ^c   Schneider, Wolf Dieter ^d   Baldereschi, Alfonso ^e   De Vita, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUT ROMAND DE RECHERCHE NUMÉRIQUE EN PHYSIQUE DES MATÉRIAUX IRRMA   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

charge transfer; long range repulsion; metal organic interfaces; molecular dynamics; polycene; supramolecular self assembly

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE FORCE; AU(1 1 1 ); BUILDING BLOCKES; CLASSICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; DFT CALCULATION; ELECTRONIC LEVELS; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; LONG-RANGE REPULSIONS; MD SIMULATION; METAL SUBSTRATE; METAL/ORGANIC INTERFACES; MOLECULAR CHARGING; NANOSCALE DEVICE; ORGANIC ADSORBATES; ORGANIC MOLECULES; POLYCENE; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; RUBRENES; SELF ASSEMBLY PROCESS; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SHORT DISTANCES; SIMILAR PATTERN; STM IMAGES; SUBMONOLAYER; SUPRAMOLECULAR SELF-ASSEMBLIES; THEORETICAL STUDY; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

ADSORBATES; ADSORPTION; CHARGE TRANSFER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUBSTRATES; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 78650731260     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101884p     Document Type: Article

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