  Entanglement of charge orderings and other electronic orders such as
superconductivity is in the core of challenging physics issues of complex
materials including high temperature superconductivity. Here, we report on the
observation of a unique nanometer scale honeycomb charge ordering of the
cleaved IrTe2 surface, which hosts a superconducting state. IrTe2 was recently
established to exhibit an intriguing cascade of stripe charge orders. The
stripe phases coexist with a hexagonal phase, which is formed locally and falls
into a superconducting state below 3 K. The atomic and electronic structures of
the honeycomb and hexagon pattern of this phase are consistent with the charge
order nature but the superconductivity does not survive on neighboring stripe
charge order domains. The present work provides an intriguing physics issue and
a new direction of functionalization for two dimensional materials.
