Odd-even effect and metal induced structural convergence in self-assembled monolayers of bipyridine derivatives.
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) observations reveal that bipyridine derivatives which exhibit various two-dimensional structures due to the odd-even chain length effect are converged into a lamellar structure upon metal coordination.
Kikkawa
Yoshihiro
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Nanoarchitectonics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 4, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8562, Japan. y.kikkawa@aist.go.jp
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