Template-directed assembly of pentacene molecules on epitaxial graphene on Ru(0001)

Nano Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-137

  Zhou, Haitao ^a   Zhang, Lizhi ^a   Mao, Jinhai ^a   Li, Geng ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Wang, Yeliang ^a   Du, Shixuan ^a   Hofer, Werner A ^b   Gao, Hong Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

density functional theory (DFT); graphene; pentacene; Ru(0001); scanning tunneling microscopy (STM); self assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874194135     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0288-8     Document Type: Article

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