Two-dimensional tessellation by molecular tiles constructed from halogen–halogen and halogen–metal networks

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 4871 - 8
• Main Authors: Cheng, Fang, Wu, Xue-Jun, Hu, Zhixin, Lu, Xuefeng, Ding, Zijing, Shao, Yan, Xu, Hai, Ji, Wei, Wu, Jishan, Loh, Kian Ping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 19.11.2018; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 147/138; 639/638/298; 639/638/541/966; 639/638/542; Benzene; Chemistry; Construction; Crystal lattices; Crystals; Domains; Fabrication; Graphene; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hydrocarbons; Laboratories; multidisciplinary; Parallelograms; Phases; Photonic crystals; Physics; Polygons; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Self-assembly; Self-similarity; Similarity; Symmetry; Tessellation; Tiles; Triangles

Molecular tessellations are often discovered serendipitously, and the mechanisms by which specific molecules can be tiled seamlessly to form periodic tessellation remain unclear. Fabrication of molecular tessellation with higher symmetry compared with traditional Bravais lattices promises potential...