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  • Identification of Active Sites for CO2 Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks, 2024, submitted, Dylan Tassé, Victor Quezada-Novoa, Christopher Copeman, Ashlee J. Howarth, Alain Rochefort.
  • On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of Local Magnetic Defects in Kagome Graphene, 2024, submitted. Rémy Pawlak, Khalid N. Anindya, Outhmane Chahib, Jung-Ching Liu, Paul Hiret, Laurent Marot, Vincent Luzet, Frank Palmino, Frédéric Chérioux, Alain Rochefort, Ernst Meyer.
  • Graphene Episulfide : Covalent Sulfur Addition to Graphene Surfaces, 2024, submitted. Simon Sprocq, Elie Haddad, Lionel Schué, M. Amine-Mezour, Mickael Dollé, Alain Rochefort, Richard Martel. 
  • On-Surface Synthesis Guided by Supramolecular Orientation on an Au(111) Surface, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128, 2024, 12482-12487. Frank Palmino, Judicaël Jeannoutot, Vincent Luzet, Alain Rochefort, Frédéric Chérioux. (on-line)
  • Magnetic Signature in Graphene Using Adsorbed Metal-Organic Networks, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128, 2024, 919-926. Alain Rochefort, Khalid Anindya, Xavier Bouju, Adam H. Denawi. (on-line)
  • Spin-Polarized Topological Phases in Graphene Nanoribbons with Non-Benzenoid Defects, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127, 2023, 22856-22864. Khalid N. Anindya, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Dissociation of N2 on a Si(111)-7x7 Surface at Room Temperature, ChemPhysChem, 24, 2023, e202300182. Elie Geagea, Judicaël Jeannoutot, Frank Palmino, Nicolas Breault, Alain Rochefort, Samar Hajjar-Garreau, Carmelo Pirri, Christophe M. Thomas, Frédéric Chérioux. (on-line) (front cover)
  • Activation, Transportation and Manipulation of Alkyl Radicals by a STM tip on a Si(111)-B Surface, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127, 2023, 6002-6009. Elie Geagea, Judicaël Jeannoutot, Frank Palmino, Alain Rochefort, Frédéric Chérioux.  (on-line)
  • Atomically Precise Incorporation of BN Doped Rubicene into Graphene Nanoribbons, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126, 2022, 19726-19732. Rémy Pawlak, Khalid N. Anindya, Toshiki Shimizu, Jung-Ching Liu, Alain Rochefort, Eiichi Nakamura, Ernst Meyer. (on-line) (front cover)
  • Controlling the Magnetic Properties of Two-Dimensional Carbon-based Kagome Polymers, Carbon Trends, 7, 2022, 100170. Khalid N. Anindya, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Electrostatic Patterning on Graphene with Dipolar Self-Assembly, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23, 2021, 22014-22021. Hamed Abbasian, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Role of the Structure and Reactivity of Cu and Ag Surfaces Towards the Formation of a 2D Metal-hexahydroxytriphenylene Network, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, 2021, 17333-17341. Alain Rochefort, Loranne Vernisse, Ana Cristina Gómez-Herrero, Carlos Sánchez-Sánchez, José Angel Martín-Gago, Frédéric Chérioux, Sylvain Clair, Johann Coraux, José I. Martínez.  (on-line)
  • Unravelling the Growth Mechanism of (3,1) Graphene Nanoribbons on a Cu(111) Surface, Chemical Communications, 57, 2021, 6043-6045. Elie Geagea, Judicaël Jeannoutot, Louise Morgenthaler, Simon Lamare, Alain Rochefort, Frank Palmino, Frédéric Chérioux. (on-line)
  • Collective Magnetism in 2D Polymer Made of C-doped Triangular Boron Nitride Nanoflakes, Advanced Theory and Simulations, 4, 2021, 2100028. Khalid N. Anindya, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Collective Radical Oligomerisation Induced by STM tip on a Silicon Surface, Nanoscale, 13, 2021, 349-354. Elie Geagea, Judicaël Jeannoutot, Michel Féron, Frank Palmino, Christophe M. Thomas, Alain Rochefort, Frédéric Chérioux. (on-line)
  • Large-Extended 2D Supramolecular Network of Dipoles With Parallel Arrangement on a Si(111)-B Surface, Nanoscale, 12, 2020, 17399-17404. Irma Custovic, Damien Teyssieux, Judicaël Jeannoutot, Simon Lamare, Frank Palmino, Hamed Abbasian, Alain Rochefort, Frédéric Chérioux. (on-line) 
  • Quantum Size Effects of Agn Clusters on Carbon Nanotubes, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 2019, 28769-28776. Nicolas Duchêne, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Influence of Cu Adatoms on the Molecular Assembling of 4,4'-Bipyridine on Cu(111), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, 2018, 15350-15357. Marc-André Dubois, Olivier Guillemet, Sébastien Gauthier, Gaolei Zhan, Younès Makoudi, Frank Palmino, Xavier Bouju, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Toward Interactive Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Simulations of Large-Scale Molecular Systems in Real Time, Journal of Applied Physics, 124, 2018, 044301. Marc-André Dubois, Xavier Bouju, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Influence of Halogen Bonds on the Compactness of Supramolecular Assemblies on Si(111)‐B, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121, 2017, 8427–8434. Gaolei Zhan, Marc-André Dubois, Younes Makoudi, Simon Lamare, Judicaël̈ Jeannoutot, Xavier Bouju, Alain Rochefort, Frank Palmino, Frédéric Chérioux. (on-line)
  • Tuning the Electronic Properties of Boron-Doped Si(111) Surface by Self-Assembling of Trimesic Acid, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, 2015, 15742–15748. Farzaneh Shayenganfar, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Electron Percolation in Realistic Models of Carbon Nanotube Networks, Journal of Applied Physics, 118, 2015, 124309. Louis-Philippe Simoneau, Jérémie Villeneuve, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Electronic Properties of Self-Assembled Trimesic Acid Monolayer on Graphene, Langmuir, 30, 2014, 9707-9716. Farzaneh Shayenganfar, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Role of Structural Order at the P3HT/C60 Heterojunctions Interface, Organic Electronics, 15, 2014, 2091-2098. Arnaud Maillard, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Anisotropic Growth of Thiophene-Based Layer on Si(111)-B, Chemical Communication, 50, 2014, 5484-5486. Alain Rochefort, Younès Makoudi, Arnaud Maillard, J. Jeannoutot, Jacob Blier, Frédéric Chérioux, Frank Palmino. (on-line)
  • Impact of Nucleation on Step-Meandering Instabilities DuringStep-Flow Growth on Vicinal Surfaces, Physical Review E, 89, 2014, 032406. Alexandre Beausoleil, Patrick Desjardins, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Influence of Statistical Distributions on the Electrical Properties of Disordered and Aligned Carbon Nanotube Networks, Journal of Applied Physics, 114, 2013, 114312. Louis-Philippe Simoneau, Jérémie Villeneuve, Carla M. Aguirre, Richard Martel, Patrick Desjardins, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • States Modulation in Graphene Nanoribbons through Metal Contacts, ACS Nano, 7, 2013, 5414-5420. Chloé Archambault, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Noncovalent Bicomponent Self-Assemblies on a Silicon Surface, ACS Nano, 6, 2012, 6905-6911. Bulent Baris, Judicaël Jeannoutot, Vincent Luzet, Frank Palmino, Alain Rochefort, Frédéric Chérioux. (on-line)
  • Evidence for π-interactions in Stacked Polymers by STM Simulations, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115, 2011, 18625-18633. Alain Rochefort, Stéphane Bedwani, Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla. (on-line)
  • Engineering Homologous Molecular Organization in 2D and 3D. Cocrystallization of Pyridyl-Substituted Diaminotriazines with Alkanecarboxylic Acids, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115, 2011, 12908. Adam Duong, Marc-André Dubois, Thierry Maris, Ji-Hyun Yi, Antonio Nanci, Alain Rochefort, James D. Wuest. (on-line)
  • Intrusive STM Imaging, Phys. Rev. B, 83, 2011, 115430. Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Large-Scale Patterning of Zwitterionic Molecules on a Si(111)-7x7 Surface, ACS Nano, 5, 2011, 424-428. Mohamed El Garah, Younes Makoudi, Éric Duverger, Frédéric Chérioux, A. Rochefort, Frank Palmino. (on-line)
  • A Single Molecule Kondo Switch: Multistability of Tetracyanoethylene on Cu(111), Nano Letters, 10, 2010, 4175-4180. Taeyoung Choi, Stéphane Bedwani, Alain Rochefort, C.Y. Chen, A.J. Epstein, Jay Gupta. (on-line)
  • Band Alignment Engineering in Organized rrP3HT/C60 Bulk Heterojunction, Organic Electronics, 11, 2010, 1991-1998. Arnaud Maillard, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Strong Adsorption of Aminoazines on Graphene, Chemical Communications, 46, 2010, 2923-2925. James D. Wuest, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • High On-Off Conductance Switching Ratio in Optical-Driven Self-Assembled Conjugated Molecular Systems, ACS Nano, 4, 2010, 2411-2421. Kacem Smaali, Stéphane Lenfant, Sandrine Karpe, Maïténa Oçafrain, Philippe Blanchard, Dominique Deresmes, Sylvie Godey, Alain Rochefort, Jean Roncali, Dominique Vuillaume. (on-line)
  • Hexaphenylbenzenes as Potential Acetylene Sponges, Organic Letters, 12, 2010, 380-383. Éric Gagnon, Alain Rochefort, Valérie Métivaud, James D. Wuest. (on-line)
  • Electronic Properties of Highly Organized P3HT Polymer, Physical Review B, 79, 2009, 115207. Arnaud Maillard, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Stabilization of Platinum Nanoparticles on Graphene by Non-Invasive Functionalization, Carbon, 47, 2009, 2233-2238. Alain Rochefort, D.-Q. Yang, Edward Sacher. (on-line)
  • Tailoring the Photoluminescence of Ionic Iridium Complexes, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 113, 2009, 534-541. Rachida Terki, Louis-Philippe Simoneau, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Interaction of Substituted Aromatic Compounds with Graphene, Langmuir, 25, 2009, 210-215. Alain Rochefort, James D. Wuest. (on-line)
  • Strongly Reshaped Organic-Metal Interfaces: Tetracyanoethylene on Cu(100), Physical Review Letters, 101, 2008, 216105. Stéphane Bedwani, Daniel Wegner, Michael F. Crommie, Alain Rochefort, (on-line)
  • Effects of Long Jumps, Reversible Aggregation, and Meyer-Neldel Rule on Submonolayer Epitaxial Growth, Physical Review E, 78, 2008, 021604. A. Beausoleil. P. Desjardins, A. Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Parallel STM Imaging of Low Dimensional Nanostructures, Journal of Applied Physics, 104, 2008, 023702. Barnim A. Janta-Polczynski, Jorge I. Cerdá, Gabriel Éthier-Majcher, Konstantinos Piyakis, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Self-Assembly of Rubrene on Copper Surfaces, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 2008, 10214-10221. Jill A. Miwa, Fabio Cicoira, Stéphane Bedwani, Josh Lipton-Duffin, Dmitrii F. Perepichka, Alain Rochefort and Federico Rosei. (on-line)
  • Nanoscale Adaptive Meshing for Rapid STM Imaging, Journal of Computational Physics, 227, 2008, 6720-6726. Stéphane Bedwani, François Guibault, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Frustrated 2D Molecular Crystallization, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129, 2007, 13774-13775. Hui Zhou, Hung Dang, Ji-Hyun Yi, Antonio Nanci, Alain Rochefort, James D. Wuest. (on-line)
  • Competitive Hydrogen Bonding in π-Stacked Oligomers, Advanced Materials, 19, 2007, 1992-1995. Alain Rochefort, Étienne Bayard, Salah Hadj-Messaoud. (on-line)
  • Resonant Tunneling Transport in Highly Organized Oligoacene Assemblies, Organic Electronics, 8, 2007, 1. Alain Rochefort, Paul Boyer, Brahim Nacer. (on-line)
  • Tailoring Electronic and Transport Properties of Molecular π-Stacked Heterojunctions, Applied Physics Letters, 89, 2006,  092115. Alain Rochefort, Paul Boyer. (on-line)
  • Hydrogen Bonding and π-Stacking in Highly Organized Arenes-Based Molecular Wire, Organic Electronics, 7, 2006,  144-154. Étienne Bayard, Sébastien Hamel, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Formation of π-Coupled Organic Wire on the Si(001)[2x1] Surface, Chemical Physics Letters, 400, 2004, 347-352. Alain Rochefort, Alexandre Beausoleil. (on-line)
  • On the Control of Carbon Nanostructures for Hydrogen Storage Applications, Carbon, 42, 2004, 2187-2193. Patrice Guay, Barry L. Stansfield, Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Electronic and Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotube Peapods, Physical Review B, 67, 2003, 115401-1/7. Alain Rochefort. (on-line)
  • Irradiation-induced Structural Changes in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon as Measured by X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 78, 2003, 391-398. Arthur Yelon, Alain Rochefort, S. Sheng, Edward Sacher. (on-line)
  • Electrical Switching in π-Resonant 1D Intermolecular Channels, Nano Letters, 2, 2002, 877-880. Alain Rochefort, Richard Martel, Phaedon Avouris. (on-line)
  • Quantum Size Effect in a Carbon Nanotube Intramolecular Junction, Nano Letters, 2, 2002, 253-256. Alain Rochefort, Phaedon Avouris. (on-line)

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