Okan Deniz

TL;DR: This study investigates the mechanisms driving the growth of 9-atom wide armchair graphene nanoribbons by using scanning tunneling microscopy, fast X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and temperature-programmed desorption techniques, and gives particular attention to the role of halogen functionalization (Br or I) of the molecular precursors.

TL;DR: It is shown that identical chiral GNRs are obtained from 9,9'-bianthryl, the unsubstituted sister molecule of DBBA, and it is proved that the coupling selectivity usually introduced by halogen substitution is overruled by the structural and catalytic properties of the substrate.

TL;DR: A novel approach to access the frontier states of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) through surface alloying suppresses the strong contribution of the Au(111) surface state and allows for an unambiguous determination of the frontier electronic states of both wide and narrow band gap AGNRs.

TL;DR: The efficiency of tip-induced deprotection experiments as a complementary strategy in the complex formation is demonstrated and the results provide perspectives for the on-surface synthesis of larger acenes featuring potential use in the fields of organic electronics, spintronics and nonlinear optics.

TL;DR: In this paper, vanadium oxide thin films were grown onto quartz substrates using the pulsed DC reactive magnetron sputtering technique at room temperature and afterwards post annealed under vacuum conditions in the temperature range from 75 to 230°C.