ALEXANDER SAYWELL alex.saywell@nottingham.ac.uk
Royal Society Senior Research Fellow
Manipulating the Conformation of Single Organometallic Chains on Au(111)
Saywell, Alexander; GreÅ„, Wojciech; Franc, Grégory; Gourdon, André; Bouju, Xavier; Grill, Leonhard
Authors
Wojciech Greń
Grégory Franc
André Gourdon
Xavier Bouju
Leonhard Grill
Abstract
The conformations of organometallic polymers formed via the bottom-up assembly of monomer units on a metal surface are investigated, and the relationship between the adsorption geometry of the individual monomer units, the conformational structure of the chain, and the overall shape of the polymer is explored. Iodine-functionalized monomer units deposited on a Au(111) substrate are found to form linear chain structures in which each monomer is linked to its neighbors via a Au adatom. Lateral manipulation of the linear chains using a scanning tunneling microscope allows the structure of the chain to be converted from a linear to a curved geometry, and it is shown that a transformation of the overall shape of the chain is coupled to a conformational rearrangement of the chain structure as well as a change in the adsorption geometry of the monomer units within the chain. The observed conformational structure of the curved chain is well-ordered and distinct from that of the linear chains. The structures of both the linear and curved chains are investigated by a combination of scanning tunneling microscopy measurements and theoretical calculations.
Citation
Saywell, A., Greń, W., Franc, G., Gourdon, A., Bouju, X., & Grill, L. (2014). Manipulating the Conformation of Single Organometallic Chains on Au(111). Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(3), 1719-1728. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp409323g
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 20, 2013 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 12, 2013 |
Publication Date | Jan 23, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Aug 8, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 8, 2016 |
Journal | Journal of Physical Chemistry C |
Print ISSN | 1932-7447 |
Electronic ISSN | 1932-7455 |
Publisher | American Chemical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 118 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 1719-1728 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1021/jp409323g |
Keywords | Scanning tunneling microscopy, Manipulation, Self-assembly, Metal-organic frameworks, On-surface synthesis, Molecular conformations |
Public URL | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/35764 |
Publisher URL | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp409323g |
Copyright Statement | Copyright information regarding this work can be found at the following address: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/end_user_agreement.pdf |
Additional Information | This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of Physical Chemistry C, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp409323g |
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