2023/11/17 by Yu Yao, Yao, Yu, Shuangxiang Wu +6
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Graphene research and applications #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2311.10889
openalex publication_date 2023/11/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
The rapid development of fabrication of functional high-quality graphene-like nanoribbons has increasingly reliant on integration of diverse nanofabrication platforms. The demand for innovative techniques to enable the exploration and precise manipulation of graphene-like nanoribbons. Herein, we present an on-surface synthesis approach for graphene-like nanoribbons, achieved through the self-assembly and annealing of pentacene/picene monomers on an one-dimensional(1D) Au(110) substrate. Scanning tunneling microscope(STM) analysis reveals that the formation of four- and eight- membered rings between adjacent molecules. Furthermore, we demonstrate a technique for manipulating pentacene dimer without breaking structural integrity by STM tip manipulation. Our results exhibit a potential platform for the development of next-generation graphene-based quantum computing architectures, as well as a technique for fabricating functional graphene-like nanoribbons with exceptional precision.