Organic surfaces play a major role in materials science. Most surfaces that we touch in our
daily lives are made from organic materials, eg, vegetables, fruit, skin, wood, and textiles …

The self-assembly of streptavidin onto biotinylated alkylthiolate monolayers on gold has
served as an important model system for protein immobilization at surfaces. Here, we report …

The self-assembly process of alkanethiols of various chain lengths [CH3 (CH2) n-1SH: n=
10, 15, and 18] on a Au (111) surface in very dilute (< 1 μM) heptane solutions was …

Lasers are becoming increasingly important in surface science, both for the diagnostic
evaluation and the processing of surfaces, for example, higher harmonic generation for …

In an attempt to quantify the role played by the rigidity of the molecular backbone on the self-
assembly process, monolayers of 4-methyl-4′-mercaptobiphenyl assembled on Au (111) …

Stratified amide-containing self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) provide opportunities for
investigating the fundamental dependence of supramolecular structure upon molecular …

Gold–sulfur bonding is investigated theoretically using a variety of electronic structure
methods, including the Becke–Perdew semilocal density functional, the B3LYP hybrid …

Atomically flat, sputter-grown Au (111) films allowed well-ordered alkanethiol (exemplified
by octanethiol) monolayers to be self-assembled from solution markedly faster and in larger …

The adsorption of various carboxylic acids with different chain lengths on Cu (111) has been
investigated using near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy and X …

Alkanethiols and related molecules spontaneously adsorb from solution or vapor phase onto
oxide‐free metals, especially gold, to form close‐packed oriented monolayers. The ease …