Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 45(49), p. 5207, 2013
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc40743h
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From an interplay of high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging and density functional theory (DFT) calculations we reveal how a molecular conformational change induced self-assembly process can result in the conversion from a random molecular phase to the formation of two types of ordered surface nanostructures with different apparent heights.