January 2001
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Scanning tunneling microscopy provides remarkably detailed information that can be employed to analyze and hopefully tailor interfacial properties that touch issues at the heart of interfacial studies of self assembly, such as: (1) the nature of the forces governing molecular organization on the surface, (2) the roles of adsorbate-adsorbate versus adsorbate-substrate interactions in driving and stabilizing molecular order, (3) the relationship between two-dimensional structure observable by STM and three-dimensional crystalline ordering, and (4) the observation, design, and control of interfacial assemblies.