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A Chiral Metal Surface
Author(s) -
Schunack Michael,
Lægsgaard Erik,
Stensgaard Ivan,
Johannsen Ib,
Besenbacher Flemming
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3773(20010716)40:14<2623::aid-anie2623>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - overlayer , chirality (physics) , scanning tunneling microscope , metal , molecule , adsorption , hexa , surface (topology) , chemistry , crystallography , chemical physics , materials science , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark , chiral symmetry breaking
Pronounced surface restructuring leads to the formation of chiral kink sites (see scanning tunneling microscopy image) when a chiral molecular overlayer (2,5,8,11,14,17‐hexa‐( tert ‐butyl)decacyclene) is adsorbed onto an extended, flat metal surface (Cu{110}). The process is proposed to happen as a result of the adsorbed molecule inducing chirality in the achiral surface.