TY  - JOUR
AU  - Guo, Shasha
AU  - Fu, Jiecai
AU  - Zhang, Peikun
AU  - Zhu, Chao
AU  - Yao, Heming
AU  - Xu, Manzhang
AU  - An, Boxing
AU  - Wang, Xingli
AU  - Tang, Bijun
AU  - Deng, Yan
AU  - Salim, Teddy
AU  - Du, Hongchu
AU  - Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal
AU  - Xu, Mingquan
AU  - Zhou, Wu
AU  - Tay, Beng Kang
AU  - Zhu, Chao
AU  - He, Yanchao
AU  - Hofmann, Mario
AU  - Hsieh, Ya-Ping
AU  - Guo, Wanlin
AU  - Ng, Michael
AU  - Jia, Chun-Lin
AU  - Zhang, Zhuhua
AU  - He, Yongmin
AU  - Liu, Zheng
TI  - Direct growth of single-metal-atom chains
JO  - Nature Synthesis
VL  - 1
IS  - 3
SN  - 2731-0582
CY  - London
PB  - Nature Publishing Group UK
M1  - FZJ-2022-02037
SP  - 245 - 253
PY  - 2022
AB  - Single-metal-atom chains (SMACs), as the smallest one-dimensional structure, have intriguing physical and chemical properties. Although several SMACs have been realized so far, their controllable fabrication remains challenging due to the need to arrange single atoms in an atomically precise manner. Here we develop a chemical vapour co-deposition method to construct a wafer-scale network of platinum SMACs in atom-thin films. The obtained atomic chains possess an average length of up to ~17 nm and a high density of over 10 wt%. Interestingly, as a consequence of the electronic delocalization of platinum atoms along the chain, this atomically coherent one-dimensional channel delivers a metallic behaviour, as revealed by electronic measurements, first-principles calculations and complex network modelling. Our strategy is potentially extendable to other transition metals such as cobalt, enriching the toolbox for manufacturing SMACs and paving the way for the fundamental study of one-dimensional systems and the development of devices comprising monoatomic chains.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001126670400011
DO  - DOI:10.1038/s44160-022-00038-z
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/907439
ER  -