Scanning tunneling microscopy study of [1,1:3,1′′-terphenyl]-4,4′′-dicarboxylic acid on HOPG

Abstract

In this work, the interfacial self-assembly behavior of [1,1’:3’,1”-terphenyl]-4,4”-dicarboxylic acid (TDA) and the regulation of the introduced guest molecules (trimesic acid (TMA) and coronene (COR)) on TDA’s mono-component system were...