Structure and Wetting Properties of. omega.-Alkoxy-n-alkanethiolate Monolayers on Gold and Silver

…, CD Bain, RG Nuzzo, GM Whitesides

Index: Laibinis, Paul E.; Bain, Colin D.; Nuzzo, Ralph G.; Whitesides, George M. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1995 , vol. 99, p. 7663 - 7676

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Abstract

In Final Form: December 5, 1994@ w-Alkoxy-n-alkanethiols (HS (CH2)" OR) adsorb from solution onto the surfaces of evaporated silver and gold films and form oriented self- assembled monolayers (SAMs). For many of these SAMs (R 2 propyl), the wetting properties of the SAMs by various polar and nonpolar liquids are indistinguishable from those of SAMs derived from n-alkanethiols and suggest that the presence of the ether oxygen atom is not ...