Binding of deposited gold clusters to thiol self-assembled monolayers on Au(111) surfaces

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Costelle, Leila ^a   Järvi, Tommi T ^b   Räisänen, Minna T ^a,c   Tuboltsev, Vladimir ^a   Räisänen, Jyrki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AU NANOCLUSTERS; AU(111) SURFACES; DEPOSITION ENERGY; GOLD CLUSTERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR LINKS; NONCOVALENT; SURFACE BINDING;

BINDING ENERGY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GOLD COMPOUNDS; GOLD DEPOSITS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

GOLD COATINGS;

EID: 79551641749     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3548862     Document Type: Article

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