Schematic depiction of different energy terms contributing to the adsorption energy, and charge density difference of 2H-P after adsorption onto Cu(111) at 12.8 Angstrom separation. Credit: M. Müller/TU Munich
As we continue to shrink electronic components, top-down manufacturing methods begin to approach a physical limit at the nanoscale. A solution involves bottom-up self-assembly of molecular building blocks to build nanoscale devices.
Successful self-assembly is an elaborately choreographed dance, in which the attractive and repulsive forces within molecules, between each molecule and its neighbors, and between molecules and the surface that supports them, have to all be taken into account...
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