On-Surface Fabrication of Complex Hybrid Nanostructures

Complex hybrid nanostructures may integrate advantages of individual species and afford new functionalized materials with well-modulated properties for specific applications. In view of the potential distinctive nature of diverse metal–organic coordination structures, hybrid metal–organic systems composed of different elementary motifs would enrich the electronic and magnetic properties of the whole system. Herein, we propose a new strategy for the sample preparation, which results in the fabrication of complex hybrid nanostructures including several elementary structural motifs. This finding opens a new avenue for advanced fabrications of complex functionalized nanostructures, which may help for the rational design of novel nanomaterials and nanodevices.