Interplay of Adsorbate-Adsorbate and Adsorbate-Substrate Interactions in Self-Assembled Molecular Surface Nanostructures  

作　　者：Joachim Schnadt Wei Xu Ronnie T.Vang Jan Knudsen Zheshen Li Erik Lægsgaard Flemming Besenbacher 

机构地区：[1]Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center,iNANO,and Department of Physics and Astronomy,Aarhus University,Building 1521,Ny Munkegade,8000 Aarhus C,Denmark [2]Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research,Department of Physics,Lund University,Box 118,22100 Lund,Sweden [3]Shanghai Key Laboratory for Metallic Functional Materials,Key Laboratory for Advanced Civil Engineering Materials(Ministry of Education),College of Materials Science and Engineering,Tongji University,1239 Si Ping Road,Shanghai 200092,China [4]Institute for Storage Ring Facilities,Aarhus University,Building 1525,Ny Munkegade,8000 Aarhus C,Denmark

出　　处：《Nano Research》2010年第7期459-471,共13页纳米研究（英文版）

基　　金：J.S.acknowledges funding from the European Commission through a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship;Funding from the Swedish Research Council(VR)is gratefully acknowledged.

摘　　要：The adsorption of 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid(NDCA)molecules on the Ag(110),Cu(110),and Ag(111)surfaces at room temperature has been studied by means of scanning tunnelling microscopy(STM).Further supporting results were obtained using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS)and soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy(XAS).On the Ag(110)support,which had an average terrace width of only 15 nm,the NDCA molecules form extended one-dimensional(1-D)assemblies,which are oriented perpendicular to the step edges and have lengths of several hundred nanometres.This shows that the assemblies have a large tolerance to monatomic surface steps on the Ag(110)surface.The observed behaviour is explained in terms of strong intermolecular hydrogen bonding and a strong surface-mediated directionality,assisted by a sufficient degree of molecular backbone flexibility.In contrast,the same kind of step-edge crossing is not observed when the molecules are adsorbed on the isotropic Ag(111)or more reactive Cu(110)surfaces.On Ag(111),similar 1-D assemblies are formed to those on Ag(110),but they are oriented along the step edges.On Cu(110),the carboxylic groups of NDCA are deprotonated and form covalent bonds to the surface,a situation which is also achieved on Ag(110)by annealing to 200°C.These results show that the formation of particular self-assembled molecular nanostructures depends significantly on a subtle balance between the adsorbate-adsorbate and adsorbate-substrate interactions and that kinetic factors play an important role.

关 键 词：Molecular self-assembly hydrogen bonding scanning tunnelling microscopy X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy 

分 类 号：O64[理学—物理化学]