Di Santo Giovanni, Miletić Tanja, Schwendt Mathias, Zhou Yating, Kariuki Benson M, Harris Kenneth D M, Floreano Luca, Goldoni Andrea, Puschnig Peter, Petaccia Luca, Bonifazi Davide
Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Strada Statale 14 km 163.5, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Park Place, CF10 3AT Cardiff, U.K.
J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces. 2021 Nov 11;125(44):24477-24486. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c05575. Epub 2021 Oct 28.
Semiconducting O-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons constitute a class of molecules whose optoelectronic properties can be tailored by acting on the π-extension of the carbon-based frameworks and on the oxygen linkages. Although much is known about their photophysical and electrochemical properties in solution, their self-assembly interfacial behavior on solid substrates has remained unexplored so far. In this paper, we have focused our attention on the on-surface self-assembly of O-doped bi-perylene derivatives. Their ability to assemble in ordered networks on Cu(111) single-crystalline surfaces allowed a combination of structural, morphological, and spectroscopic studies. In particular, the exploitation of the orbital mapping methodology based on angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, with the support of scanning tunneling microscopy and low-energy electron diffraction, allowed the identification of both the electronic structure of the adsorbates and their geometric arrangement. Our multi-technique experimental investigation includes the structure determination from powder X-ray diffraction data for a specific compound and demonstrates that the electronic structure of such large molecular self-assembled networks can be studied using the reconstruction methods of molecular orbitals from photoemission data even in the presence of segregated chiral domains.
半导体氧掺杂多环芳烃构成了一类分子,其光电特性可通过作用于碳基骨架的π-延伸和氧键来进行调整。尽管人们对它们在溶液中的光物理和电化学性质了解很多,但迄今为止它们在固体基质上的自组装界面行为仍未得到探索。在本文中,我们将注意力集中在氧掺杂双苝衍生物的表面自组装上。它们在Cu(111)单晶表面组装成有序网络的能力使得结构、形态和光谱研究得以结合进行。特别是,基于角分辨光电子能谱的轨道映射方法,在扫描隧道显微镜和低能电子衍射的支持下,能够确定吸附质的电子结构及其几何排列。我们的多技术实验研究包括从特定化合物的粉末X射线衍射数据确定结构,并证明即使存在分离的手性域,也可以使用光电子能谱数据中的分子轨道重建方法来研究此类大分子自组装网络的电子结构。