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Molecular organic networks

A step beyond flatland

Non-covalent interactions can organize planar molecules into two-dimensional arrays. It has now been shown that such arrays can be combined at the solid–liquid interface into bilayered heterostructures.

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Figure 1: Assembly of supramolecular heterostructures on hexagonal boron nitride.

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Buck, M. A step beyond flatland. Nature Chem 9, 1152–1154 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2901

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