STM Study of the Self-Assembly of Biphenyl-3,3',5,5'-Tetracarboxylic Acid and Its Mixing Behavior with Coronene at the Liquid-Solid Interface.
STM Study of the Self-Assembly of Biphenyl-3,3',5,5'-Tetracarboxylic Acid and Its Mixing Behavior with Coronene at the Liquid-Solid Interface.
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DOI：
10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c03199
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2023-03
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Rong-Shun Xie;Xingming Zeng;Zhi-Heng Jiang;Yi Hu;Shern-Long Lee
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Rong-Shun Xie;Xingming Zeng;Zhi-Heng Jiang;Yi Hu;Shern-Long Lee
We report a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) study of the molecular self-assembly of biphenyl-3,3',5,5'-tetracarboxylic acid (BPTC) at the octanoic acid/graphite interface. STM revealed that the BPTC molecules generated stable bilayers and monolayers under high and low sample concentrations, respectively. Besides hydrogen bonds, the bilayers were stabilized by molecular π-stacking, whereas the monolayers were maintained by solvent co-adsorption. A thermodynamically stable Kagomé structure was obtained upon mixing BPTC with coronene (COR), while kinetic trapping of COR in the co-crystal structure was found by the subsequent deposition of COR onto a preformed BPTC bilayer on the surface. Force field calculation was conducted to compare the binding energies of different phases, which helped to provide plausible explanations for the structural stability formed via kinetic and thermodynamic pathways.
