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Measuring the mechanical properties of molecular conformers (2015)
Journal Article
Jarvis, S. P., Taylor, S., Baran, J., Champness, N. R., Larsson, J., & Moriarty, P. (2015). Measuring the mechanical properties of molecular conformers. Nature Communications, 6(8338), https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9338

Scanning probe-actuated single molecule manipulation has proven to be an exceptionally powerful tool for the systematic atomic-scale interrogation of molecular adsorbates. To date, however, the extent to which molecular conformation affects the force... Read More about Measuring the mechanical properties of molecular conformers.

Simulated structure and imaging of NTCDI on Si(1 1 1)-7 × 7 : a combined STM, NC-AFM and DFT study (2015)
Journal Article
Jarvis, S. P., Sweetman, A., Lekkas, I., Champness, N. R., Kantorovich, L., & Moriarty, P. (2015). Simulated structure and imaging of NTCDI on Si(1 1 1)-7 × 7 : a combined STM, NC-AFM and DFT study. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 27(5), Article 054004. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/27/5/054004

The adsorption of naphthalene tetracarboxylic diimide (NTCDI) on Si(1 1 1)-7 × 7 is investigated through a combination of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), noncontact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM) and density functional theory (DFT) calculatio... Read More about Simulated structure and imaging of NTCDI on Si(1 1 1)-7 × 7 : a combined STM, NC-AFM and DFT study.

Intramolecular bonds resolved on a semiconductor surface (2014)
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Sweetman, A., Jarvis, S. P., Rahe, P., Champness, N. R., Kantorovich, L., & Moriarty, P. (2014). Intramolecular bonds resolved on a semiconductor surface. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 90(16), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.165425

Noncontact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM) is now routinely capable of obtaining submolecular resolution, readily resolving the carbon backbone structure of planar organic molecules adsorbed on metal substrates. Here we show that the same resolution... Read More about Intramolecular bonds resolved on a semiconductor surface.

Fullerenes as adhesive layers for mechanical peeling of metallic, molecular and polymer thin films (2014)
Journal Article
Wieland, M. B., Slater, A. G., Mangham, B., Champness, N. R., & Beton, P. H. (2014). Fullerenes as adhesive layers for mechanical peeling of metallic, molecular and polymer thin films. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 5, https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.5.46

We show that thin films of C60 with a thickness ranging from 10 to 100 nm can promote adhesion between a Au thin film deposited on mica and a solution-deposited layer of the elastomer polymethyldisolaxane (PDMS). This molecular adhesion facilitates t... Read More about Fullerenes as adhesive layers for mechanical peeling of metallic, molecular and polymer thin films.