Self-assembled structures of alkanethiols on gold-coated cantilever tips and substrates for atomic force microscopy: Molecular organisation and conditions for reproducible deposition

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 256, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1961-1968

  Lamprou, Dimitrios A ^a   Smith, James R ^a   Nevell, Thomas G ^a   Barbu, Eugen ^a   Willis, Colin R ^b   Tsibouklis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Physical Sciences Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkanethiols; Atomic force microscopy; Infrared spectroscopy; Multilayer deposition; Self assembly; Surface energy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DEPOSITION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MULTILAYERS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES;

ALKANETHIOLS; AVERAGE ORIENTATION; CONCENTRATION RANGES; CONTACT ANGLE GONIOMETRY; GOLD-COATED CANTILEVERS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; MULTILAYER DEPOSITIONS; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES;

GOLD COATINGS;

EID: 72549103274     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.10.045     Document Type: Article

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