Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering || Synchrotron-based Spectroscopy In On-Surface Polymerization of Covalent Networks

摘要： Synchrotron radiation is a powerful tool to probe physical properties of materials on the nanoscopic scale. It can provide a chemical fingerprint of a nanomaterial with unrivalled resolution, it can measure the geometric structure down to thousands of a nanometer with not only elemental sensitivity but also chemical sensitivity, and it can study charge transfer dynamics in the sub-nanosecond regime. Within this article the application of synchrotron radiation to studying on-surface catalysis, to the view of forming two-dimensional covalent networks, will be explored.