Scientists at Nagoya University have developed a simple way to align molecules in one direction on a flat graphene surface. Efficiently controlling molecular alignment is expected to lead to significant progress in surface chemistry and molecular engineering, as well as materials science.
press released on March 22, 2018
Molecular assemblies on graphene grow in perfect orientation by atomic force microscopy (AFM) tip scanning. The gray plane on the bottom represents the graphene surface. The stick-like particles consisting of red, white, yellow and gray colored balls represent surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)) molecules. The gray colored reverse pyramid-like structure represents the probe tip of AFM.
Nagoya, Japan - A group of scientists at Nagoya University have developed a simple and powerful method to construct perfectly unidirectional molecular assembly structures on graphenes, according to a study reported in the journal Scientific Reports. Discovered accidentally during other research, the method relies on a common laboratory tool, atomic force microscopy (AFM), to control molecular alignment......>>read more on the ITbM website
