Surface chemistry articles within Nature Chemistry

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• Research Highlights | 19 February 2010

  Ice ice maybe

  Positive charges lower, and negative charges raise the freezing temperature of supercooled water on a pyroelectric surface, as well as affecting at which interface nucleation takes place.

  • Gavin Armstrong

• Review Article | 22 January 2010

  Tailoring molecular layers at metal surfaces

  The formation of single-layer-thick molecular networks at metal surfaces is governed by the interplay between intermolecular and interfacial interactions. This Review highlights how, with films built by vacuum deposition, these interactions can be modulated to form substrates that may be useful as catalysts or templates for further deposition steps.

  • Ludwig Bartels

• Article | 10 January 2010

  Random two-dimensional string networks based on divergent coordination assembly

  The bulk properties of materials that lack long-range order have been widely studied, but their local structures remain difficult to elucidate. Now, using scanning tunnelling microscopy, researchers have been able to look more closely at the structural motifs of robust, two-dimensional glassy networks assembled through metal–ligand interactions.

  • Matthias Marschall
  • , Joachim Reichert
  •  & Johannes V. Barth