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Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jul 11;51(54):10917-20. doi: 10.1039/c5cc03255e.

Alkoxylated dehydrobenzo[12]annulene on Au(111): from single molecules to quantum dot molecular networks.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Koen Schouteden, Tsveta Ivanova, Zhe Li, Violeta Iancu, Kazukuni Tahara, Yoshito Tobe, Jinne Adisoejoso, Steven De Feyter, Chris Van Haesendonck, Ewald Janssens

Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Solid State Physics and Magnetism, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium. [email protected].

PMID: 26060847 DOI: 10.1039/c5cc03255e

Abstract

We demonstrate the effective confinement of surface electrons in the pores of molecular networks formed by dehydrobenzo[12]annulene (DBA) molecules with butoxy groups (DBA-OC4) on Au(111). Investigation of the network formation starting from single molecules reveals a considerable interaction of the molecules with the substrate, which is at the origin of the observed confinement.

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