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SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 681, Issue -, Pages 104-110Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2018.11.010
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Weak interactions; Dispersion forces; 2D self-assembly
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- Collaborative Research Fund of Hong Kong Research Grants Council [C2014-15G]
- Institute of Creativity - Hung Hin Shiu Charitable Foundation
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We report an unusual self-assembled layer structure of chloroaluminium phthalocyanine (ClAlPc) molecules on highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), in which a close-packed well-ordered monolayer is separated from the substrate by a relatively disordered buffer layer, as revealed using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Our close-packed monolayer has a nearly rectangular lattice, instead of the distinctly different square lattice for the more commonly observed well-ordered bilayer structure. This may be due to the dominance of intermolecular interactions within the monolayer when the influence from the substrate is shielded by the buffer layer. Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations and Reduced Density Gradient (RDG) analysis indicate that the dominant intermolecular interaction within the unusual layer is likely the London dispersion force.
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