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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 111, 期 26, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.265701
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- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- U.S. DOE [DE-FG02-07ER15842]
- NSERC
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
Controlling the self-assembly of surface-adsorbed molecules into nanostructures requires understanding physical mechanisms that act across multiple length and time scales. By combining scanning tunneling microscopy with hierarchical ab initio and statistical mechanical modeling of 1,4-substituted benzenediamine (BDA) molecules adsorbed on a gold (111) surface, we demonstrate that apparently simple nanostructures are selected by a subtle competition of thermodynamics and dynamics. Of the collection of possible BDA nanostructures mechanically stabilized by hydrogen bonding, the interplay of intermolecular forces, surface modulation, and assembly dynamics select at low temperature a particular subset: low free energy oriented linear chains of monomers and high free energy branched chains.
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