On-surface trapping of alkali atoms by crown ethers in ultra high vacuum.

Matus Stredansky Elia Turco Zhijing Feng Roberto Costantini Giovanni Comelli Alberto Verdini Luca Floreano Alberto Morgante Carlo Dri Albano Cossaro

Published in: Nanoscale advances (2019)

Crown ethers, assembled into a regular 2D array via a chemical guest-host recognition process, have been successfully employed to trap sodium atoms on a surface, under ultra-high vacuum conditions.

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