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SUBMITTER: Matvija P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544747 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170804 1
Self-assembly of organic molecules is a mechanism crucial for design of molecular nanodevices. We demonstrate unprecedented control over the self-assembly, which could allow switching and patterning at scales accessible by lithography techniques. We use the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to induce a reversible 2D-gas-solid phase transition of copper phthalocyanine molecules on technologically important silicon surface functionalized by a metal monolayer. By means of ab-initio calculations w ...[more]