Water-mediated self-assembly of 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid on GaAs (001)

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 15090-15097

  Huang, Xiaohuan ^a   Liu, Neng ^a   Moumanis, Khalid ^a   Dubowski, Jan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16-MERCAPTOHEXADECANOIC ACID; COOH-TERMINAL; ETHANOL/WATER; II-IV SEMICONDUCTORS; ROLE OF WATER; SAM FORMATION; SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE; WATER CONTACT ANGLE MEASUREMENT;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHOTOELECTRONS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

EID: 84880763994     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp402653n     Document Type: Article

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