Towards Organization of Molecular Machines at Interfaces. Langmuir Films and Langmuir-Blodgett Multilayers of an Acid-Base Switchable Rotaxane

In this context we investigated, for the first time, the organi-zation of a non-amphiphilic tricationic switchable rotaxaneand its dumbbell-shaped component into Langmuir films andLangmuir–Blodgett (LB) multilayers by using a cospreadingstrategy. The Langmuir films have been characterized by sur-face pressure–area (