Issue 90, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Structural investigation of ionic liquid/rubrene single crystal interfaces by using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy

Yasuyuki Yokota,a   Hisaya Hara,a   Tomohiro Harada,a   Akihito Imanishi,a   Takafumi Uemura,bc   Jun Takeya*bc  and  Ken-ichi Fukui*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
E-mail: kfukui@chem.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
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b Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan
E-mail: takeya@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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c The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan

Abstract

Frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy (FM-AFM) was employed to reveal the structural properties of a rubrene single crystal immersed in an ionic liquid. We found large vacancies formed by the anisotropic dissolution of rubrene molecules. Molecular resolution imaging revealed that structures of FM-AFM images deviated from the bulk-terminated structure.

Graphical abstract: Structural investigation of ionic liquid/rubrene single crystal interfaces by using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC45338C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Jul 2013
Accepted
18 Sep 2013
First published
19 Sep 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 10596-10598

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Structural investigation of ionic liquid/rubrene single crystal interfaces by using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy

Y. Yokota, H. Hara, T. Harada, A. Imanishi, T. Uemura, J. Takeya and K. Fukui, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 10596 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45338C

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