2007/05/30 by Simon Berner, Martina Corso, Roland Widmer +11 · 2 citations
Materials Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Graphene research and applications #Surface Chemistry and Catalysis #Surface and Thin Film Phenomena
paper · doi:10.1002/anie.200700234
openalex publication_date 2007/05/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/26
A nanotemplate surface that functions as a regular array of traps for molecules such as naphthalocyanine (see picture) is provided by a nanomesh of hexagonal BN on Rh(111), which has now been identified as a single, complete monolayer. The 2-nm-sized pores form at regions where the layer binds strongly to the underlying metal, while the regular network of mesh wires corresponds to regions where the layer is not bonded to the substrate.