This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST Nos. 2011CB921702 and 2011CB932700), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC No. 61222112), Multilevel Molecular Assemblies: Structure, Dynamics, and Functions (TRR61), Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC), and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in China. WAH acknowledges support from the UK Car-Parinello consortium, grant No. EP/F037783/1.
The template-directed assembly of planar pentacene molecules on epitaxial graphene grown on Ru(0001) (G/Ru) has been investigated by means of low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and density funct...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 90406022 and 10674159).
We report on the formation of a graphene monolayer on a Ru(0001) surface by annealing the Ru(0001) crystal. The samples are characterized by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and Auger electron spectroscopy ...