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

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Stredansky M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9419578 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature