Hydrogen-bond induced surface core-level shift in isonicotinic acid

• Intermolecular hydrogen-bonding in thick films of isonicotinic acid evaporated onto rutile TiO2(110) has been investigated with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The rate of deposition is found to be a key factor in overcoming the kinetic barriers to extensive hydrogen-bond formation, which, when present, gives rise to large energy shifts between bulk and surface in both the N1s XPS and XAS. The origin of the surface core-level shift is attributed to the presence of non-hydrogen-bonded nitrogen atoms in the surface layer.

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molecular-beam deposition

organic thin-films

rutile tio2(110)

spectroscopy

clusters

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