Self-Assembly of carboranethiol isomers on Au{111}: Intermolecular interactions determined by molecular dipole orientations

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 527-536

  Hohman, J Nathan ^a   Zhang, Pengpeng ^a   Morin, Elizabeth I ^a   Han, Patrick ^a   Kim, Moonhee ^a   Kurland, Adam R ^a   McClanahan, Patrick D ^a   Balema, Viktor P ^b   Weiss, Paul S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sigma Aldrich Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Carboranethiol; Contact angle; Dipole moment; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Kelvin probe; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Self assembled monolayers; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

ADLAYER STRUCTURES; CARBORANETHIOL; COMPETITIVE BINDINGS; DOMAIN BOUNDARIES; DYNAMIC CONTACT ANGLES; GAS-PHASE; GRAZING INCIDENCES; INTER-MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; KELVIN PROBE; KELVIN PROBE FORCE MICROSCOPIES; MOLECULAR DIPOLE MOMENTS; MOLECULAR DIPOLES; ROTATIONAL DOMAINS; SAM SYSTEMS; SAMS; STM IMAGES; UNIT CELLS;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; ADSORBATES; CONTACT ANGLE; DIPOLE MOMENT; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOMERS; MOLECULES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PROBES; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 65249176216     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800673d     Document Type: Article

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