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Single crystal templating in a non-planar phthalocyanine
Dr. Luke Rochford and Prof. Tim Jones along with Alex Ramadan and collaborators from Imperial College London publish in Advanced Materials Interfaces on the use of solution-grown copper iodide crystals as substrates for templated growth of a nonplanar phthalocyanine molecule using organic molecular beam deposition. Structural characterization reveals a single molecular orientation, produced by the (111) surfaces of the copper iodide crystals, in contrast to previous work employing copper iodide thin films. These fundamental measurements show the importance of morphology and structure in templating interactions for organic electronics applications.
Structural Templating in a Nonplanar Phthalocyanine Using Single Crystal Copper Iodide
Adv. Mater. Interfaces Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1002/admi.201400540