Tailoring molecular layers at metal surfaces.
The design of networks of organic molecules at metal surfaces, highly attractive for a variety of applications ranging from molecular electronics to gas sensors to protective coatings, has matured to a degree that patterns with multinanometre unit cells and almost any arbitrary geometry can be fabricated. This Review provides an overview of vacuum-deposited organic networks at metal surfaces, using intermolecular hydrogen bonding, metal-atom coordination and in situ polymerization. Recent progress in these areas highlights how the design of surface patterns can benefit from the wealth of information available from solution- and bulk-phase chemistry, while at the same time providing novel insights into the nature of such bonds through the applicability of direct scanning probe imaging at metal surfaces.
124 Pierce Hall, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA. ludwig.bartels@ucr.edu
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D000327:Adsorption; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008024:Ligands; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
D008024:Ligands; D008670:Metals