This article reviews recent progress in the characterization of self-assembled monolayers
(SAMs) with a chalcogen headgroup by synchrotron-based high-resolution X-ray …

Charge transfer at surfaces, which is very important for surface photochemistry and other
processes, can be extremely fast. This tutorial review shows how high resolution correlated …

Electroreduction of CO2 to fuels (eg, CO) catalyzed by transition metal catalysts is a
promising approach to mitigate global warming issues, but it has limitations of low catalytic …

Optical properties and the geometric structure of self-assembled monolayers of azobenzene-
functionalized alkanethiols have been investigated by UV/visible and near edge X-ray …

Selenolate is considered as an alternative to thiolate to serve as a headgroup mediating the
formation of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on coinage metal substrates. There are …

Molecules with tripodal anchoring groups are generally capable of forming self-assembled
monolayers (SAMs), which, however, frequently suffer from inhomogeneous bonding …

Conspectus A key issue of molecular electronics (ME) is the correlation between the
molecular structure and the charge transport properties of the molecular framework …

Femtosecond charge transfer (CT) dynamics in a series of self-assembled monolayers with
an oligo (phenylenethynylene) and oligo (phenyl) backbone is addressed by resonant …

Interfacial charge-transfer is a topic with wide relevance in many research fields, and there is
intense scientific interest to characterize and understand the nature and mechanisms of …

The structure of the interface between a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of alkanethiolates
(AT) and the underlying Au (111) substrate is a longstanding puzzle in surface science. To …