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.
Merz
Leo
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Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Laboratory for Nanoscale Materials Science, Ueberlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Bauert
Tobias
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Parschau
Manfred
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Koller
Georg
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Siegel
Jay S
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Ernst
Karl-Heinz
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