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Credit: Image by Argonne National Laboratory
This shows a strand of magnetic molecules atop a dense bed of “armchair” graphene nanoribbons — which appear as a series of closely spaced strings — grown on a gold crystal surface. The image was taken on a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy tool at Argonne’s
Center for Nanoscale Materials.
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Credit: Image by Argonne National Laboratory
The nanoribbons did not block but facilitated interactions between the magnetic molecules and gold crystal surface, shown here in the foreground. The image was taken on a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy tool at Argonne’s
Center for Nanoscale Materials
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Credit: Image by Argonne National Laboratory
This shows another three-layered device with the magnetic molecule bridging widely spaced “armchair” graphene nanoribbons and its center positioned above — but not touching — the gold surface. The image was taken on a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy tool at Argonne’s
Center for Nanoscale Materials