Homochiral xanthine quintet networks self-assembled on Au(111) surfaces

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6651-6660

  Yu, Miao ^a,b   Wang, Jianguo ^c   Mura, Manuela ^d,e   Meng, Qiang Qiang ^c   Xu, Wei ^a   Gersen, Henkjan ^f   Lægsgaard, Erik ^a   Stensgaard, Ivan ^a   Kelly, Ross E A ^g   Kjems, Jørgen ^a   Linderoth, Trolle R ^a   Kantorovich, Lev N ^d   Besenbacher, Flemming ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hydrogen bonding; prebiotic earth; purine; scanning tunneling microscopy; self assembly

Indexed keywords

ACID DEGRADATION; AU(1 1 1 ); AU(111) SURFACES; BASE PAIRING; BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; DOUBLE HYDROGEN BONDING; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH RESOLUTION SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; HOMOCHIRAL; HUMAN DISEASE; INORGANIC SURFACES; PREBIOTICS; PURINE; SELF-ASSEMBLED; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM CONDITIONS;

ADSORPTION; AMINES; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POSITIVE IONS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLAR SYSTEM; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 80052061340     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202157m     Document Type: Article

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