Rotational switches in the two-dimensional fullerene quasicrystal

Abstract

Local potential differences between the 36 and 32.4.3.4 vertex configurations are identified within a two-dimensional dodecagonal fullerene monolayer. In a local area of the 8/3 approximant, rotational switching fullerenes on 36 vertex sites are revealed by scanning tunneling microscopy.

Construction of a Molecular Switch Based on Two Metastable States of Fullerene on Cu(111)

“…In this case, the C 60 intermolecular Coulomb repulsion is very large. 34,35 It agrees well with the experimental results that the mixed phase of the up-three-lobe and down-three-lobe conformation will not be observed on a terrace in the process of annealing the sample over 473 K, as shown in Figure 1c. Therefore, the stable (4 × 4) structure of a self-assembled monolayer of C 60 molecules is a result of competition between the C 60 −substrate and C 60 −C 60 interactions.…”

“…In addition, the angle 60° in Figure b is an unstable state and it owes to that the pentagons and the 6:6 bonds of the up-three-lobe conformation C 60 molecule, respectively, perfectly align with the pentagons and 6:6 bonds of its surrounding C 60 . In this case, the C 60 intermolecular Coulomb repulsion is very large. , It agrees well with the experimental results that the mixed phase of the up-three-lobe and down-three-lobe conformation will not be observed on a terrace in the process of annealing the sample over 473 K, as shown in Figure c. Therefore, the stable (4 × 4) structure of a self-assembled monolayer of C 60 molecules is a result of competition between the C 60 –substrate and C 60 –C 60 interactions.…”

Chiral self-assembly of terminal alkyne and selenium clusters organic-inorganic hybrid

“…Understanding how weak intermolecular interactions among molecular building blocks drive self-assembly systems allows us to design two-dimensional (2D) mesoscopic systems with new properties. On-surface Kagome lattice [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8], tessellation [9,10], pattern alloy [11], and even quasicrystals [12][13][14][15][16][17], and Sierpinski triangle fractals [18][19][20][21][22] have been discovered recently by using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and added to the list of artificially created low dimensional structures [23][24][25][26].…”