Nitro-Substituted Aromatic Thiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers: Structural Properties and Electron Transfer upon Resonant Excitation of the Tail Group

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 26049-26060

  Waske, Prashant ^a,b   Wächter, Tobias ^a   Terfort, Andreas ^b   Zharnikov, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; AUGERS; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MONOLAYERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SUBSTRATES; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AU (111) SUBSTRATES; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS; MOLECULAR FRAMEWORKS; RESONANT CONTRIBUTION; RESONANT EXCITATION; SUBSTITUTED AROMATIC; UPRIGHT ORIENTATIONS;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 84927610767     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp507265k     Document Type: Article

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