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The impact of grafted surface defects and their controlled removal on supramolecular self-assembly

Chemical Science, ISSN: 2041-6539, Vol: 7, Issue: 12, Page: 7028-7033
2016
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  • Citations
    20
  • Captures
    29
  • Social Media
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Article Description

We demonstrate the use of covalently modified graphite as a convenient and powerful test-bed for the versatile investigation and control of 2-D crystallization at the liquid solid interface. Grafted aryls act as surface defects and create barriers to supramolecular self-assembly. An easily tunable grafting density allows for varying the effect of such defects on supramolecular self-assembly. Finally, the defects can be locally removed, triggering monolayer reconstructions and allowing in situ investigations of thermodynamically unstable or metastable morphologies.

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