A tutorial Chemical Society Review On-surface synthesis can be regarded as an efficient means to build new molecular species by using bottom-up strategies. Recently, a collection of different reactions leading to large tailor-made organic molecules on single-crystal metal surfaces has been reported. The fundamental mechanisms controlling these reactions can be…
New bottom-up strategies for molecular assembly to tailor-build new molecules The appearance on the technological scene of new electronic devices based on organic molecules is awaited with much expectation since they promise to be inexpensive, flexible, faster and smaller than those based on silicon technology. However, molecular electronics faces important…
Recently published in Chemistry, a European Journal. Vacuum deposition of a planarized PAH, as C60H30 , on a single-crystal surface, as Pt(111), leads to surface induced chirality caused by the different landing side of the molecule, as depicted by in-situ STM images. We show that the surface discriminate the landing…
Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. by ESISNA Graphene is one of the most outstanding materials of the decade. Among all the different proposed applications and protocols to growth it, epitaxial graphene on single-crystal metal surfaces have acquired a significant relevance as a model system where to rationalize their atomic structure,…
What you see it is not what it is! Chemical and morphological changes in the tip are frequent during an experimental STM session. We have shown the effect of different tip apexes on the appearance of atomic features of STM images by relating experimental STM images with DFT calculations. The…
Molecular networks provide new surface functionality and could enable the formation of more complex structures Nanoporous molecular systems have become an interesting field. They are well reported as templates for positioning nano-objects and for having remarkable applications in catalysis. Now metal-organic monolayers can be grown in a controlled way using…
Fast diffusing cysteine molecules on the Au surface can be regarded as a 2D molecular gas. Molecular “evaporation” and “condensation” from the gas on the surface morphological features takes place continuously. This process leads progressively to the formation of a number of stable arrangements, not previously reported, like single-molecular rows,…
A single molecular magnet (SMM) is a large molecule exhibiting superparamagnetic properties, and therefore it behaves like a magnet. One of the challenges attracting more attention over the last few years has been the development of new techniques that allow their nanostructuration and addressing on surfaces, to promote their potential…
The paper entitled: Fullerenes from aromatic precursors by surface catalysed cyclodehydrogenation. by G. Otero,et al. Nature 454, 865-868 (2008) has been commented on different journals and magazines. Here you could find a list of some of the links.
The group leaded by J. Tamayo y M. Calleja in «Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid-CSIC», together with the ESISNA group and the «centro de Astrobiología» have developped a new nucleic acid biosensor based on the immobilization of self-assembled monolayers of DNA and PNA on micro-cantilevers. These results have been published…