1 Laboratoire de Catalyse Moléculaire, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, UMR 8075, Bâtiment 420, 91405 Orsay cedex, France.
Charge-transfer complexes have been detected by chemical force microscopy (CFM) between a tip and a substrate respectively functionalized with trinitrofluorenone and 9-anthracenemethanol siloxane derivatives.