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Metal-phthalocyanine array on the moiré pattern of a graphene sheet

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Iron-phthalocyanine (FePc) molecules have been adsorbed on a graphene sheet prepared on the Ir(111) surface. The FePc molecules are flat-lying on graphene, as determined by near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure, constituting a sub-nanometer thick molecular array at the single-layer coverage. The flat FePc single-layer presents a weak interaction of the organic macrocycle with the graphene surface and Ir subsurface substrate. Further FePc deposition on top of the first flat single-layer determines a three-dimensional island growth with varying molecular orientation.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the fruitful experimental collaboration of Xenia De Lucia and Pierluigi Gargiani. Work supported by the PRIN project of MIUR, by Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, and by the Elettra Synchrotron Radiation facility in Trieste.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Mattia Scardamaglia, Giuseppe Forte, Carlo Mariani & Maria Grazia Betti

  2. Sincrotrone Trieste, Str. St. 14 km 163.5, 34149, Trieste, Italy

    Silvano Lizzit & Paolo Lacovig

  3. Department of Physics, Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials, University of Trieste, Via Valerio 2, 34127, Trieste, Italy

    Alessandro Baraldi

  4. IOM-CNR Laboratorio TASC, AREA Science Park, S.S.14 Km 163.5, 34012, Trieste, Italy

    Alessandro Baraldi

  5. CNR-ICS, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Roma, Italy

    Rosanna Larciprete

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Scardamaglia, M., Forte, G., Lizzit, S. et al. Metal-phthalocyanine array on the moiré pattern of a graphene sheet. J Nanopart Res 13, 6013–6020 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-011-0384-1

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