High-Quality 2D Metal−Organic Coordination Network Providing Giant Cavities within Mesoscale Domains

Dirk Kühne, Florian Klappenberger, Régis Decker, Uta Schlickum, Harald Brune, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Mario Ruben, Johannes V. Barth

Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2009 · 146 citations · 28 references

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A surface-supported open metal-organic nanomesh featuring a 24 nm(2) cavity size and extending to mum domains was fabricated by Co-directed assembly of para-hexaphenyl-dicarbonitrile linker molecules in two dimensions. The metallosupramolecular lattice is thermally robust and resides fully commensurate on the employed Ag(111) substrate as directly verified by high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy observations.

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