Quantifying thiol-gold interactions towards the efficient strength control

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xue, Yurui ^a   Li, Xun ^a   Li, Hongbin ^b   Zhang, Wenke ^a  

^a Jilin University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER; THIOL;

GOLD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THIOL;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COVALENT BOND; HISTOGRAM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REACTION TIME; STRENGTH; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84904014436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5348     Document Type: Article

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