Designing Supramolecular Porphyrin Arrays That Selforganize into Nanoscale Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Toward step-by-step nuclear growth of surface two-dimensional porphyrin nanonetworks

“…nanometer scale precision is one of the central issues in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Bottom-up approaches utilizing self-assembly processes of molecular systems allow the simple and quick formation of supramolecular structures on surfaces [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Using suitable designs and choices of molecular building blocks, a variety of surface nanoarchitectures can be prepared  these can be tuned and specific structural motifs can be stabilized by either covalent [9], coordination [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], and hydrogen bonds [21,22], or by  [23,24] and van der Waals interactions [24][25][26].…”