Grafting molecular Cr₇Ni rings on a gold surface.
Molecular {Cr(7)Ni} rings have shown several ideal features for the observation of quantum phenomena and they appear suitable candidates for qubits encoding at low temperatures. We have exploited different functionalization pathways to graft molecular {Cr(7)Ni} rings onto a Au(111) surface from the liquid phase and here we report a comparative analysis of the results obtained by STM, XPS, XAS and XMCD experimental techniques.
Corradini
Valdis
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CNR-Institute of NanoSciences, S3 via Campi 213/a, 41100, Modena, Italy. valdis@unimore.it
Ghirri
Alberto
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del Pennino
Umberto
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Biagi
Roberto
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Milway
Victoria A
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Timco
Grigore
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Tuna
Floriana
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Winpenny
Richard E P
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Affronte
Marco
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