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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2013
UT Battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Minghu Pan, Knoxville, TN (US);
Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Knoxville, TN (US);
Petro Maksymovych, Knoxville, TN (US);
Bobby G. Sumpter, Knoxville, TN (US);
Qing Li, Knoxville, TN (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
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.