“…The thin films are attractive as a reference point for the construction of complex molecular architectures 4,9,10 and because they are explicitly required for some applications, e.g., chemically modified thin-film electrodes. 11 Recent studies have been dedicated to the magnetic properties of ordered thin films of metallorganic magnetic molecules, e.g., Mn-TPPCl 12 and Fe-OEPCl 13 porphyrins adsorbed on ferromagnetic transition metal substrates, which are potentially interesting in the fields of data storage and spintronics. Herein, we choose the octaethyl-porphyrins with the magnetic Co metal as the central atom, to investigate the possible realization of a longrange ordered 2D array of magnetic elements, by exploiting the self-organizing properties of porphyrins on Ag(110), a noncovalently interactive and nonmagnetic substrate.…”