Molecular tectonics based nanopatterning of interfaces with 2D metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)

Abstract

The nanostructuring of the graphite surface with 2D coordination networks, based on a combination of an acentric porphyrin tecton bearing two divergently oriented monodentate pyridyl units and a CoCl₂ metallatecton, behaving as a four connecting node, was achieved at the solid–liquid interface and characterized by scanning tunnelling microscopy.