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The AFM phase images of ZnPc on (a) Cu and (b) Au obtained from the same regions shown in Fig. 1a,b, respectively. The red circles in (a) are the same positions presented in Fig. 2a, in which the phase angle has consistently smaller value compared to that in other regions.