title: Self-organized lateral patterning of a rare earth complex and stearic acid in Langmuir films.
abstract: Metal supercomplexes form on compression of a film of the individual complexes mixed with a fatty acid: A suite of techniques--Langmuir film balance, and optical and scanning force microscopy--show the transformation of [Eu(tta)3 (phen)] into a thin film of strongly luminescent tetrameric supercomplexes. When the area per molecule is low, a phase-separated meshwork structure forms. The cartoon shows the surface arrangement, in which the supercomplexes sit on a layer of the single europium complexes and corralled by a fatty acid.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Physics I, University of Leipzig, 04103, Germany.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Krüger
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kohlstrunk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lösche
mesh_terms: D005453:Fluorescence; D008674:Metals, Rare Earth / Q000737:chemistry*; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D010316:Particle Size; D013229:Stearic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D008674:Metals, Rare Earth; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D013229:Stearic Acids; C031183:stearic acid