title: Formation of a regular fullerene nanochain lattice.
abstract: A vicinal Au(11 12 12) surface, naturally patterned into a rectangular superlattice, has been used as a template to prepare C60 nanostructures with long-range order and uniform size. At a coverage of 0.1 monolayer and at room temperature, a two-dimensional long-range ordered superlattice of molecular nanochains is achieved, which perfectly replicates the periodicity of the template surface. The fullerene nanochains are found to be located exclusively on the face-centered cubic stacking domains at the lower step edges. Our experiments demonstrate that highly periodic molecular nanochains can be fabricated through a site-selective anchoring method.
authors.forename: Wende
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ruffieux
authors.forename: Kamel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aït-Mansour
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gröning
authors.forename: Krisztian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Palotas
authors.forename: Werner A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Hofer
authors.forename: Pierangelo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gröning
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fasel