Facile Route to Ultraflat SAM-Protected Gold Surfaces by "Amphiphile Splitting"

Pooja Gupta, Katja Loos, Alexander Korniakov, Chiara Spagnoli, Mary Cowman, Abraham Ulman

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Abstract

Self-assembled monolayers of both aliphatic and aromatic thiols can be produced with no, apparent contact-angle hysteresis by a modified "template-stripping" method. Organothiol solutions serve as splitting reagents for the removal of the mica from the gold surface. These new ultrasmooth SAM surfaces (see the AFM image) provide new information on interfacial properties including wetting and adhesion.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)520-523
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume43
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 16 2004

Keywords

  • Gold
  • Monolayers
  • Self-assembly
  • Surface roughness
  • Thiols

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry

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