Showing papers in "Surface Science Reports in 2012"
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TL;DR: Graphene, a single atomic layer of sp2 hybridized carbon, exhibits a zero-band gap with linear band dispersion at the Fermi-level, forming a Dirac-cone at the K -points of its Brillouin zone as mentioned in this paper.
743 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the existence of silicene has been achieved recently owing to experiments involving epitaxial growth of silicon as stripes on Ag (001), ribbons on Ag(110), and sheets on Ag((111) ).
703 citations
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TL;DR: The use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for trace element determination in different matrices is reviewed in this article, where the main emphasis is on spatially resolved analysis of microbiological, plant and animal samples.
155 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a summary of theoretical and experimental studies of the interaction of TMC surfaces with oxygen-containing molecules, including both inorganic (O2, H2O, CO and CO2) and organic (alcohols, aldehydes, acids and esters) molecules.
79 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the experimental progress that exploits electronic substrate-mediated interactions as a means to control the order and structures of surface self-assemblies, with emphasis on scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), a technique that is sensitive to both the spatial and the energetic distributions of surface electronic states.
79 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the free energy per unit length of phase boundaries in these quasi-two-dimensional (2D) systems is known as line tension, and is directly analogous to surface tension in three dimensions.
35 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the classical theory of atom-surface scattering as well as extensions and implications for semiclassical scattering and the further development of a quantum theory of surface scattering.
33 citations
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TL;DR: Rusanov et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the dependence of the crack line tension on the crack size and the conformal change (when a crack changes its size with maintaining its geometrical similarity) and the depth growth (when the distance between the crack lips is fixed).
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