Near Fermi Superatom State Stabilized by Surface State Resonances in a Multiporous Molecular Network.

ABSTRACT: Two-dimensional honeycomb molecular networks confine a substrate's surface electrons within their pores, providing an ideal playground to investigate the quantum electron scattering phenomena. Besides surface state confinement, laterally protruding organic states can collectively hybridize at the smallest pores into superatom molecular orbitals. Although both types of pore states could be simultaneously hosted within nanocavities, their coexistence and possible interaction are unexplored. Here, we show that these two types of pore states do coexist within the smallest nanocavities of a two-dimensional halogen-bonding multiporous network grown on Ag(111) studied using a combination of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, density functional theory calculations, and electron plane

SUBMITTER: Kawai S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8488955 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature