Polymorph selection in 2D crystals by phase transition blocking.
A phase transition between two-dimensional polymorphs of the buckybowl corannulene on a Cu(111) surface can be suppressed by spatial confinement, allowing stabilisation of the metastable polymorph over the stable one.
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Laboratory for Nanoscale Materials Science, Ueberlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Leo
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Merz
Tobias
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Bauert
Manfred
M
Parschau
Georg
G
Koller
Jay S
JS
Siegel
Karl-Heinz
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Ernst