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Self-Assembly of Hybrid Lipid Membranes Doped with Hydrophobic Organic Molecules at the Water/Air Interface
Published on: May 1, 2020
Temperature-induced transitions of self-assembled phthalocyanine molecular nanoarrays at the solid-liquid interface:
Fangyun Hu1, Yunnan Gong, Xuemei Zhang
1CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China. zengqd@nanoctr.cn kdeng@nanoctr.cn wangch@nanoctr.cn.
Abstract:
A promising approach to create functional nanoarrays is supramolecular self-assembly at liquid-solid interfaces. In the present investigation, we report on the self-assembly of phthalocyanine arrays using triphenylene-2,6,10-tricarboxylic acid (H₃TTCA) as a molecular nanotemplate. Five different metastable arrays are achieved in the study, including a thermodynamically stable configuration. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements and density function theory (DFT) calculations are utilized to reveal the formation mechanism of the molecular nanoarrays. In general, the transformation process of nanoarrays is regulated by the synergies of a template effect and thermodynamic balance.
