Ordering, flexibility and frustration in arrays of porphyrin nanorings

The packing of spheres, disks and other simple shapes into arrays on surfaces is relevant to many problems across the physical sciences. Here the authors study the influence of flexibility and reduced symmetry on the packing of porphyrin nanorings which are deposited from solution onto a graphite su...

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Main Authors: Alex Summerfield, Matteo Baldoni, Dmitry V. Kondratuk, Harry L. Anderson, Stephen Whitelam, Juan P. Garrahan, Elena Besley, Peter H. Beton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11009-y