Recent Progress in the Fabrication of Low Dimensional Nanostructures via Surface-Assisted Transforming and Coupling

Figure 1

(a) Scheme of a hierarchical coupling strategy. Chemical structures of (b) trans-Br₂I₂TPP. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of (c, d) trans-Br₂I₂TPP molecules on Au(111) after deposition at 80 K followed by heating to 393 K (Step  1) and 523 K (Step  2). Figure was adopted from [6] with permission.

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