Dehalogenation and coupling of a polycyclic hydrocarbon on an atomically thin insulator

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6571-6579

  Dienel, Thomas ^a   Gómez Díaz, Jaime ^b   Seitsonen, Ari P ^b   Widmer, Roland ^a   Iannuzzi, Marcella ^b   Radican, Kevin ^a   Sachdev, Hermann ^c   Müllen, Klaus ^c   Hutter, Jürg ^b   Gröning, Oliver ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

boronitrene; hexagonal boron nitride; nanomesh; on surface reaction; PAH; porous graphene; scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL BONDS; GRAPHENE; MONOLAYERS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BORONITRENE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; NANOMESH; ON-SURFACE REACTION; POROUS GRAPHENE;

METALS;

EID: 84904749539     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501906w     Document Type: Article

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