A versatile strategy towards non-covalent functionalization of graphene by surface-confined supramolecular self-assembly of Janus tectons

• Ping Du,
• David Bléger,
• Fabrice Charra,
• Vincent Bouchiat,
• David Kreher,
• Fabrice Mathevet and
• André-Jean Attias

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 632–639, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.64

• with a well-controlled lateral order. In this way, it is possible to simultaneously obtain a regular, non-covalent paving as well as supramolecular functionalization of graphene, thus opening interesting perspectives for nanoscience applications. Keywords: C(sp2)-based substrates; graphene; Janus

• surface-based, supramolecular, periodic architectures on C(sp2)-based substrates, and (ii) independently exposing off-plane functionalities with controlled lateral order on demand. Mastering the surface-confined self-assembly of 2D tectons on C(sp2)-based substrates In the first stage, a strategy to

• obtain “on demand”, non-covalent self-assemblies with predetermined 2D periodic topologies on C(sp2)-based substrates was proposed [26]. Indeed, the construction of predictable and well-defined assemblies remains difficult to achieve, where the resulting topologies are often explained a posteriori based