Chain-length dependence of metastable striped structures of alkanethiols on Au(111)

Langmuir

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 8270-8277

  Munuera, Carmen ^a   Barrena, Esther ^a,b   Ocal, Carmen ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AGGLOMERATION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; GOLD; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

CARBON CHAINS; CHAIN-LENGTH DEPENDENCE; GOLD SURFACE; LAMELLA MODELS;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 24944503487     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la047065q     Document Type: Article

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