Ut-battelle, Inc.

Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera

Petro Maksymovych

Bobby G Sumpter

Minghu Pan

Qing Li

The embodiments disclosed herein include all-electron control over a chemical attachment and the subsequent self-assembly of an organic molecule into a well-ordered three-dimensional monolayer on a metal surface. The ordering or assembly of the organic molecule may be through electron excitation. Hot-electron and hot-hole excitation enables tethering of the organic molecule to a metal substrate, such as an alkyne group to a gold surface. All-electron reactions may allow a direct control over the size and shape of the self-assembly, defect structures and the reverse process of molecular disassembly from single molecular level to mesoscopic scale.

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Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera