Templated growth of metal-organic coordination chains at surfaces

Line them up: Metal-organic chains (see scanning tunneling microscopy image) have been created in situ by self-organized growth at a metal surface under ultrahigh vacuum. These 1D arrangements of metal centers (Fe, Cu), regularly spaced by organic linkers such as trimesitylic acid, open new possibilities for the study of low-dimensional magnetism. (Figure Presented). © 2005 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.