Many nanotechnology devices will require components that consist of arrays of molecules positioned on surfaces with nanometre precision. One way to make these is to let the molecules organize themselves.
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Grunze, M. Patterns from molecular corrals. Nature 454, 585–586 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454585a
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