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Article

Bottom-Up Self-Assembled Supramolecular Structures Built by STM at the Solid/Liquid Interface

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Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Av.Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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Materials 2019, 12(3), 382; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12030382
Submission received: 21 December 2018 / Revised: 17 January 2019 / Accepted: 21 January 2019 / Published: 25 January 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Macromolecules to Materials for Optoelectronic Devices)

Abstract

One of the lines of research on organic devices is focused on their miniaturization to obtain denser and faster electronic circuits. The challenge is to build devices adding atom by atom or molecule by molecule until the desired structures are achieved. To do this job, techniques able to see and manipulate matter at this scale are needed. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been the selected technique by scientists to develop smart and functional unimolecular devices. This review article compiles the latest developments in this field giving examples of supramolecular systems monitored and fabricated at the molecular scale by bottom-up approaches using STM at the solid/liquid interface.
Keywords: scanning tunneling microscopy; unimolecular electronics; molecular device; monolayer; coordination chemistry; interfaces; nanotechnology scanning tunneling microscopy; unimolecular electronics; molecular device; monolayer; coordination chemistry; interfaces; nanotechnology

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Ferreira, Q.; Delfino, C.L.; Morgado, J.; Alcácer, L. Bottom-Up Self-Assembled Supramolecular Structures Built by STM at the Solid/Liquid Interface. Materials 2019, 12, 382. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12030382

AMA Style

Ferreira Q, Delfino CL, Morgado J, Alcácer L. Bottom-Up Self-Assembled Supramolecular Structures Built by STM at the Solid/Liquid Interface. Materials. 2019; 12(3):382. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12030382

Chicago/Turabian Style

Ferreira, Quirina, Catarina L. Delfino, Jorge Morgado, and Luís Alcácer. 2019. "Bottom-Up Self-Assembled Supramolecular Structures Built by STM at the Solid/Liquid Interface" Materials 12, no. 3: 382. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12030382

APA Style

Ferreira, Q., Delfino, C. L., Morgado, J., & Alcácer, L. (2019). Bottom-Up Self-Assembled Supramolecular Structures Built by STM at the Solid/Liquid Interface. Materials, 12(3), 382. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12030382

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