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In‐Situ Growth of Gadolinium Phthalocyaninato Sandwich Complexes on the Ag(111) Surface
Author(s) -
Urgel José I.,
Écija David,
Vijayaraghavan Saranyan,
Pörtner Mathias,
Bocquet MarieLaure,
Auwärter Willi,
Barth Johannes V.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.201900253
Subject(s) - gadolinium , scanning tunneling microscope , stoichiometry , in situ , substrate (aquarium) , deposition (geology) , chemistry , materials science , crystallography , nanoclusters , analytical chemistry (journal) , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , paleontology , oceanography , sediment , geology , biology
We report a low‐temperature scanning tunneling microscopy investigation of the in‐situ growth of gadolinium phthalocyaninato complexes by combined deposition of free‐base phthalocyanines and gadolinium atoms on a smooth Ag(111) substrate. A careful control of the stoichiometry allows the expression of a multilevel structurecomposed of irregularly distributed Gd x ‐1 (Pc) x complexes, x =2–5, thus paving new avenues for surface‐confined columnar growth.