title: Site-specific chemistry directed by a bifunctional nanostructured surface.
abstract: Using the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), we have created a bifunctional nanostructured surface which consists of parallel stripes of gold atoms on the Au(111) substrate. Each stripe has two parallel step-edges separated by a few nanometers in distance. The two step-edges have very different binding properties to molecules, and they are able to separate C(60) molecules into two types of adsorbed structures, giving rise to a controlled formation of two-dimensional closely spaced multiple molecular nanostructures.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Quanmin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry; D016252:Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D006046:Gold