Michael Lepper presents a detailed room temperature scanning tunneling microscopy study of
Nickel-tetraphenyltetrabenzoporphyrin on Cu(111) a prototype system for the fabrication of
functional molecular architectures. The peculiar adsorption behavior in particular the
observation of three different coexisting supramolecular arrangements and the identification of
two different intramolecular conformations within one arrangement yield valuable insights into
the specific molecular interactions and the self-assembly process in general.
