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Reverse Engineering of Monolayers and Nanopatterns
Author(s) -
Zerbetto Francesco
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201201687
Subject(s) - monolayer , materials science , cooperativity , nanotechnology , surface (topology) , molecular electronics , polymer science , molecule , organic chemistry , chemistry , biochemistry , geometry , mathematics
In a molecularly decorated surface, the molecular tiles are “glued” to the surface by binding constants and possibly further “glued” to each other by cooperativity factors . At odds with mosaics, these “glues” come with the tiles and cannot be removed or supplemented. Binding polynomials quantify glue amounts from experimental data and may predict molecular self‐organization on surfaces that can be exploited in organic (opto‐)electronics.