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Giulia Serrano1, Andrea Luigi Sorrentino1, Lorenzo Poggini2
1Department of Chemistry "U. Schiff" and INSTM Research Unit, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy and Department of Industrial Engineering and INSTM Research Unit, University of Florence, Via Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence (FI), Italy. giulia.serrano@unifi.it.
Abstract:
A terbium(iii)-bis(phthalocyaninato) neutral complex was deposited on the rutile TiO2(110) surface, and their interaction was studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS). It was found that the TiO2 rutile surface favours the adsorption of isolated molecules adopting a lying down configuration with the phthalocyanine planes tilted by about 30° when they lie in the first layer. The electronic and chemical properties of the molecules on the surface were studied by XPS as a function of the TiO2(110) substrate preparation. This study evidences that strong molecule-substrate interactions are present and a charge transfer process occurs from the molecule to the surface.
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