TY  - JOUR
AB  - Using scanning tunneling microscopy we have studied the nucleation and growth of unidirectional molecular rows upon adsorption of the amino acid cysteine onto the anisotropic Au(110)-(1x2) surface under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. By modeling a large variety of possible molecular adsorption geometries using density-functional theory calculations, we find that in the optimum, lowest energy configuration, no significant intermolecular interactions exist along the growth direction. Instead the driving force for formation of the unidirectional molecular rows is an adsorbate-induced surface rearrangement, providing favorable adsorption sites for the molecules.
DA  - 2004
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.086101
LA  - eng
IS  - 8
M2  - 086101
PY  - 2004
SN  - 0031-9007
SP  - 086101-
T2  - Physical Review Letters
TI  - Growth of unidirectional molecular rows of cysteine on Au(110)-(1x2) driven by adsorbate-induced surface rearrangements
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29138599
Y2  - 2024-11-24T16:08:05
ER  -