Hai-Ming Zhang

TL;DR: This work reports the highly selective carbon-hydrogen (C–H) activation and subsequent dehydrogenative C–C coupling reaction of long-chain (>C20) linear alkanes on an anisotropic gold(110) surface, which undergoes an appropriate reconstruction by adsorption of the molecules and subsequent mild annealing, resulting in nanometer-sized channels.

TL;DR: The narrowest armchair graphene nanoribbon with five carbons across the width of the GNR (5-AGNR) was synthesized on Au(111) surfaces via sequential dehalogenation processes in a mild condition by using 1,4,5,8-tetrabromonaphthalene as the molecular precursor.

TL;DR: High-resolution direct and inverse photoemission spectroscopy of occupied and unoccupied states allows the determination of the energetic position and momentum dispersion of electronic states revealing the existence of band gaps of several electron volts for straight 7-armchairs, 13-armchair, and chevron-type GNRs in the electronic structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a robust self-assembled monolayer (SAM) directed by lateral triple hydrogen bonding interactions was prepared by a one-step reaction of cyanuric acid (CA) and melamine (M) molecules on reconstructed Au(111) surfaces in ambient conditions.

TL;DR: It is found that gold reconstruction plays a critical role in the SAM formation, and two-dimensional chiral lamellar structures form for alkanes with an even carbon number due to the specific packing of alkane molecules in a tilted lamella.