Quantifying the stability of inorganic/organic interfaces is challenging, as experimental methods to determine adsorption energies are scarce and the results have large uncertainties even for the most widely studied systems. Here, the authors combine temperature-programmed desorption, single-molecule atomic force microscopy, and non-local density-functional theory to accurately characterize the adsorption energy of a widely studied interface consisting of perylene-tetracarboxylic dianhydride molecules on Au(111).
- Victor G. Ruiz
- Christian Wagner
- Alexandre Tkatchenko
