Nano-structured Metal Surfaces

Molecular nanostructuring plays an important role in today's research, due to the great possibilities arising from this powerful technique. The main advantage herein is the ability to steer the self-organization process into desired nanostructures by use of special designed molecular building blocks. A major goal of our group is a basic and comprehensive understanding of molecular self-assembly on well defined surfaces.

Therefore, we investigate the influence of both, the molecule geometry and its chemical structure on the resulting self-assembled-monolayer (SAM), as well as the role of the substrate type. By additionally studying dynamic effects, e.g. the change of domain walls occurring during phase transformations, we are able to describe the self-organization process quantitatively.

A second aim of our team is to use these SAM's as template for metal incorporation, in order to perform in a second step model catalytic reactions at these surfaces.

 

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