Self-organization of electron acceptor molecules on graphene

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Nov 21;46(43):8198-200. doi: 10.1039/c0cc02675a. Epub 2010 Oct 6.

Abstract

Graphene grown on Ir(111) electronically decouples adsorbed molecules from the metallic substrate and allows the study of their self-organization on surfaces. We study two electron acceptor molecules from the same family. The intermolecular interaction, attractive for TCNQ and repulsive for F(4)-TCNQ, dictates the molecular ordering.