Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 36, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab95ba
Keywords
self-assembled monolayer; porphyrin; STM; photoemission spectroscopy; gold surface
Funding
- European Community's Seventh Framework Program (FP7 2007-2013) through the MaTeRiA Project [PONa3 00370]
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Porphyrins are a versatile class of molecules, which have attracted attention over the years due to their electronic, optical and biological properties. Self-assembled monolayers of porphyrins were widely studied on metal surfaces in order to understand the supramolecular organization of these molecules, which is a crucial step towards the development of devices starting from thebottom-upapproach. This perspective could lead to tailor the interfacial properties of the surface, depending on the specific interaction between the molecular assembly and the metal surface. In this study, we revisit the investigation of the assembly of zinc-tetraphenylporphyrins on Au(111) in order to explore the adsorption of the molecular network on the noble metal substrate. The combined analysis of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging and core levels photoemission spectroscopy measurements support a peculiar arrangement of the ZnTPP molecular network, with Zn atoms occupying the bridge sites of the Au surface atoms. Furthermore, we prove that, at few-layers coverage, the interaction between the deposited layers allows a relevant molecular mobility of the adlayer, as observed by STM and supported by core levels photoemission analysis.
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