†Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
‡Institute of Nanotechnology (INT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.
J Am Chem Soc. 2015 Jun 17;137(23):7424-8. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b03114. Epub 2015 Jun 3.
We study a thermally activated on-surface planarization reaction by a detailed analysis of the reactant and reaction products from atomically resolved atomic force microscopy (AFM) images and spectroscopy. The three-dimensional (3D) structure of the reactant, a helical diphenanthrene derivative, requires going beyond constant-height imaging. The characterization in three dimensions is enabled by acquisition and analysis of the AFM signal in a 3D data set. This way, the structure and geometry of nonplanar molecules as well as their reaction products on terraces and at step edges can be determined.
我们通过原子分辨原子力显微镜(AFM)图像和光谱对反应物和反应产物进行详细分析,研究了一种热激活的表面平坦化反应。反应物——一种螺旋二菲衍生物——的三维(3D)结构需要超越恒高成像。通过获取和分析 3D 数据集的 AFM 信号,可以实现三维表征。这样,就可以确定非平面分子的结构和几何形状,以及它们在平台和台阶边缘的反应产物。