Study of the (0 0 1) cleavage planes of guanidinium methanesulfonate single crystals by AFM and He diffraction

Gianangelo Bracco; Ying Hu; J. örg Acker; Michael D. Ward

doi:10.1016/S0169-4332(03)00041-2

Study of the (0 0 1) cleavage planes of guanidinium methanesulfonate single crystals by AFM and He diffraction

Gianangelo Bracco, Ying Hu, J. örg Acker, Michael D. Ward

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Abstract

The guanidinium methanesulfonate (GMS) is a layered self-assembled organic crystal. Its structure presents a bilayer architecture and two different (0 0 1) planes can be exposed upon cleavage. In a previous paper, we have studied both planes separately and we have shown that the analysis of the rate of decay in the thermal attenuation of the He atom elastic scattered intensities allows for distinguishing between the two possible (0 0 1) cleavage planes. In this paper we investigate by means of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and He diffraction the morphology of cleaved (0 0 1) surfaces in order to study the coexistence of the two different planes on the same crystal surface.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	151-156
Number of pages	6
Journal	Applied Surface Science
Volume	212-213
Issue number	SPEC.
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-4332(03)00041-2
State	Published - May 15 2003

Keywords

Atomic force microscopy
He diffraction
Organic single crystal
Self-assembly
Surface morphology

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Chemistry(all)
Condensed Matter Physics
Physics and Astronomy(all)
Surfaces and Interfaces
Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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Study of the (0 0 1) cleavage planes of guanidinium methanesulfonate single crystals by AFM and He diffraction

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