Our paper in Emerging_Leaders 2021 Special Issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Our paper entitled “Chemically imaging nanostructures formed by the covalent assembly of molecular building blocks on a surface with ultrahigh vacuum tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy” has been accepted by the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. In this paper, low temperature ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) were used to investigate the formation of 2D covalent networks via coupling reactions of tetra(4-bromophenyl)porphyrin (Br4TPP) molecules on a Ag(100) substrate. Through the combination of STM topographic imaging and TERS vibrational fingerprints the conformation of molecular precursors on the substrate was understood. Following the thermally activated coupling reaction, STM and TERS imaging confirm the covalent nature of the 2D networks and suggest that the apparent disorder arises from molecular flexibility. This was nominated by the journal's Editorial Board for a special issue bringing together the best early-career researchers from all areas of condensed matter physics. Congratulations Jeremy!

Check it here: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ac57d8.