Non-equilibrium surface growth in a hybrid inorganic-organic system
Soft Condensed Matter
2016-12-21 v2
Abstract
Using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, we show that molecular morphologies found in non-equilibrium growth can be strongly different from those at equilibrium. We study the prototypical hybrid inorganic-organic system 6P on ZnO(10-10) during thin film adsorption, and find a wealth of phenomena including re-entrant growth, a critical adsorption rate and observables that are non-monotonous with the adsorption rate. We identify the transition from lying to standing molecules with a critical cluster size and discuss the competition of time scales during growth in terms of a rate equation approach. Our results form a basis for understanding and predicting collective orientational ordering during growth in hybrid material systems.
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@article{arxiv.1511.00587,
title = {Non-equilibrium surface growth in a hybrid inorganic-organic system},
author = {Nicola Kleppmann and Sabine H. L. Klapp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00587},
year = {2016}
}