• 文献标题:   On-Surface Synthesis of Chiral Graphene Nanoribbon Segments via the Quarter-Anthryl on Au(111) Surface
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG H, LU JC, LI BJ, ZHAO XJ, ZHOU HJ, NIU GF, XIONG W, ZHANG Y, FU BY, GAO L, TAN YZ, CAI JM
  • 作者关键词:   chiral nanoribbon fragment, lateral extension, nanographene, onsurface synthesi, scanning tunneling microscope, scanning tunneling spectroscopy
  • 出版物名称:   ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   2196-7350
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1002/admi.202201949 EA DEC 2022
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Quarteranthene is predicted to manifest nontrivial edge states as the competition from the hybridization of localized frontier states and the Coulomb repulsion between valence electrons, which hosts much research potential in memory, spintronic devices fabrication, and quantum computation. The fabrication of ribbon-like structures with up-mentioned edge states, such as chiral graphene nanoribbon, possesses a high significance in the topological phase transition investigation. However, the synthesis of chiral graphene nanoribbon is limited in reactive substrate or with the edge-brominated precursor. Here, the fabrication of quarteranthene and its chiral graphene nanoribbon segment on Au(111) substrate is reported. A combined bond-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy, noncontact atomic force microscopy characterization, and corresponding density functional theory calculations confirm the chemical structure of fabricated products on the Au(111) substrate. The detailed analysis of the laterally extended products reveals that the lateral-extended structures are acquired via the linkage of the hydrocarbon quarter-anthryl. In addition, several strategies are used to modulate the yield of quarteranthene and its lateral-extended products. These findings provide a new insight into the lateral extension strategy on metal substrates and provide another possible fabrication strategy of chiral graphene nanoribbons on the relative inert Au(111) substrate.