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Buckyball sandwiches.

ABSTRACT: Two-dimensional (2D) materials have considerably expanded the field of materials science in the past decade. Even more recently, various 2D materials have been assembled into vertical van der Waals heterostacks, and it has been proposed to combine them with other low-dimensional structures to create new materials with hybridized properties. We demonstrate the first direct images of a suspended 0D/2D heterostructure that incorporates C60 molecules between two graphene layers in a buckyball sandwich structure. We find clean and ordered C60 islands with thicknesses down to one molecule, shielded by the graphene layers from the microscope vacuum and partially protected from radiation damage during scanning transmission electron microscopy imaging. The sandwich structure serves as a 2D nanoscale reaction chamber, allowing the analysis of the structure of the molecules and their dynamics at atomic resolution.

SUBMITTER: Mirzayev R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5466370 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Buckyball sandwiches.

Mirzayev Rasim R Mustonen Kimmo K Monazam Mohammad R A MRA Mittelberger Andreas A Pennycook Timothy J TJ Mangler Clemens C Susi Toma T Kotakoski Jani J Meyer Jannik C JC

Science advances 20170609 6

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have considerably expanded the field of materials science in the past decade. Even more recently, various 2D materials have been assembled into vertical van der Waals heterostacks, and it has been proposed to combine them with other low-dimensional structures to create new materials with hybridized properties. We demonstrate the first direct images of a suspended 0D/2D heterostructure that incorporates C<sub>60</sub> molecules between two graphene layers in a bucky ...[more]

PMID: 28630925

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