TY - JOUR AU - Atodiresei, N. AU - Caciuc, V. AU - Lazic, P. AU - Blügel, S. TI - Chemical versus van der Waals Interaction: The Role of the Heteroatom in the Flat Absorption of Aromatic Molecules C6H6, C5NH5, and C4N2H4 on the Cu(110) Surface JO - Physical review letters VL - 102 SN - 0031-9007 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - PreJuSER-4532 SP - 136809 PY - 2009 N1 - This work was supported by the German Physical Society, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. AB - We perform first-principles calculations aimed at investigating the role of a heteroatom such as N in the chemical and long-range van der Waals (vdW) interactions for a flat adsorption of several pi-conjugated molecules on the Cu(110) surface. Our study reveals that the alignment of the molecular orbitals at the adsorbate-substrate interface depends on the number of heteroatoms. As a direct consequence, the molecule-surface vdW interactions involve not only pi-like orbitals which are perpendicular to the molecular plane but also sigma-like orbitals delocalized in the molecular plane. KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000264888600058 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.136809 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/4532 ER -