Complexation of C60 on a cyclothiophene monolayer template

Highly ordered monolavers of macrocyclic oligothiophene C[12]T (see Figure) can be used as veritable templates to epitaxially grow 3D nanoarchitectures with C-60-fullerenes. Due to submolecularly resolved STM images, 1:1 complexes consisting of a ring-shaped p-type semiconductor (C[12]T) and a spherical n-type semiconductor (C-60) can be investigated in terms of dynamics and complexation sites.