Self-assembled monolayers formation

The importance of surface characterization in molecular architecture chemistry and engineering is obvious. Solid surfaces are becoming essential building blocks for constructing molecular architectures, as demonstrated in self-assembled monolayer formation [6] and alternate layer-by-layer adsorption [7]. Surface-induced structuring of liqnids is also well-known [8,9], which has implications for micro- and nano-technologies (i.e., liqnid crystal displays and micromachines). The virtue of the force measurement has been demonstrated, for example, in our report on novel molecular architectures (alcohol clusters) at solid-liquid interfaces [10]. 

Two additional special cases that can be termed chemical vapor deposition are worthy of mention, since they are the vapor-phase analogues of solution techniques discussed above. These are self-assembling monolayer formation and vapor-phase surface chemical derivatization. In the former, it is necessary only to... 

On the other hand, this procedure for the self-assembled monolayer formation has a drawback. A monolayer adsorbed on a silica plate surface is subjected to the detachment of CRA-CM molecules more or less in polar solvents such as water and alcohols,since the adsorption stems from the hydrogen bond formation. This problem was overcome by the pretreatment of a silica plate surface with an aminoalkylation silylating reagent to introduce amino residues on the surface. A photoresponsive monolayer of... 

Schwartz, D.K. Mechanisms and kinetics of self-assembled monolayer formation. Annu. Rev. 

Doudevski I, Hayes WA, Schwartz DK (1998) Submonolayer island nucleation and growth kinetics during self-assembled monolayer formation. Phys Rev Lett 81 4927-4930... 

Characterization of Self Assembled Monolayer Formation of 11-Mercaptoundecanoic Acid on Gold Surfaces... 

The use of self-assembled monolayer formation has been adapted to the deposition of conducting-polymer nanofilms by the chemical polymerization of aniline at an amino-silane surface that acts as the seed layer for polymerization, which led to a more ordered nanofibrous growth than would be seen using bulk chemical polymerization [39]. This was shown to be capable of detection of 0.5 ppm ammonia vapor, with a... 

Gannon, G., Greer, J.C., Larsson, J.A., Thompson, D. Molecular dynamics study of naturally occurring defects in self-assembled monolayer formation. ACS Nano 4, 921-932 (2010)... 

Figure 9.9. Scheme of the DNA self-assembled monolayer formation on gold electrodes. Reprinted with permission from Elsevier [57],... 

D.K. Schwartz, Mechanisms and Kinetics of Self-Assembled Monolayer Formation. Annu Rev Phys Chem (2001) Vol. 52 pp. 107-137. 

Coates M, Nyokong T (2013) X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis of the effect of aUcyl-andarylthio substituents on manganese phthalocyanines for self-assembled monolayer formation on gold. Electrochem Common 31 104-107... 

Feichtenschlager, B., Lomoschitz, C.J., and Kickelbick, G. (2011) Tuning the self-assembled monolayer formation on nanoparticle surfeces with different curvatures investigations on spherical silica particles and plane-crystal-shaped zirconia particles. /. Colloid Interface Sci., 360 (1), 15-25. 

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