2011/02/17 by Marta Balbás Gambra, M. Balbás Gambra, Carsten Rohr +9
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1102.3575
8 Pages, 7 Figures
arxiv created 2011/02/17 · openalex publication_date 2011/02/17 · arxiv updated 2011/02/18 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Molecular building blocks interacting at the nanoscale organize spontaneously into stable mono- layers that display intriguing long-range ordering motifs on the surface of atomic substrates. The patterning process, if appropriately controlled, represents a viable route to manufacture practical nanodevices. With this goal in mind, we seek to capture the salient features of the self-assembly process by means of an interaction-site model. The geometry of the building blocks, the symmetry of the underlying substrate, and the strength and range of interactions encode the self-assembly pro- cess. By means of Monte Carlo simulations, we have predicted an ample variety of ordering motifs which nicely reproduce the experimental results. Here, we explore in detail the phase behavior of the system in terms of the temperature and the lattice constant of the underlying substrate. Our method is suitable to investigate the stability of the emergent patterns as well as to identify the nature of the melting transition monitoring appropriate order parameters.