A molecular conformational change induced self-assembly: from randomness to order.

Wei Xu, Chi Zhang, Henkjan Gersen, Qiang Sun, Huihui Kong, Liang Dong, Kai Sheng, Qinggang Tan, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher

College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Advanced Civil Engineering Materials (Ministry of Education), Tongji University, Caoan Road 4800, Shanghai 201804, PR China. xuwei@tongji.edu.cn

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 2013 Jun 7

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From an interplay of high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging and density functional theory (DFT) calculations we reveal how a molecular conformational change induced self-assembly process can result in the conversion from a random molecular phase to the formation of two types of ordered surface nanostructures with different apparent heights.

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Wei Xu, Chi Zhang, Henkjan Gersen, Qiang Sun, Huihui Kong, Liang Dong, Kai Sheng, Qinggang Tan, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher. A molecular conformational change induced self-assembly: from randomness to order. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 2013 Jun 7;49(45):5207-9

PMID: 23632570

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