Issue 45, 2008
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

On the self assembly of short chain alkanedithiols

Hicham Hamoudi,ab   Zhiang Guo,c   Mirko Prato,d   Céline Dablemont,ab   Wan Quan Zheng,c   Bernard Bourguignon,c   Maurizio Canepad  and  Vladimir A. Esaulov*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Université-Paris Sud, Laboratoire des Collisions Atomiques et Moléculaires, LCAM, Bâtiment, 351, UPS-11, Orsay, France
E-mail: vladimir.esaulov@u-psud.fr

b CNRS, UMR 8625, Laboratoire des Collisions Atomiques et Moléculaires, LCAM, Bâtiment, 351, UPS-11, Orsay, France

c CNRS, UPR 3361, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, LPPM, Bâtiment, 350, UPS-11, Orsay, France

d CNISM and Department of Physics, University of Genova, Via Dodecaneso, 33, Genova, Italy

Abstract

A study of the self-assembly of nonane-alkanedithiol monolayers on gold in n-hexane and ethanol solvents is presented. Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are characterised by reflection–absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS), sum frequency generation (SFG) and spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) measurements. Data obtained for alkanethiols SAMs are also shown for comparison. The measurements show that nicely organized HSC9SH SAMs can be obtained in n-hexane provided that N2-degassed solutions are used and all preparation steps are performed in the absence of ambient light. SFG measurements show that these SAMs have free standing SH groups. Use of an un-degassed and/or light-exposed n-hexane solutions leads to a worse layer organization. Preparation in ethanol, even in degassed solutions with processing in the dark, leads to poorly organized layers and no sign of free –SH groups was observed.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B809760G
Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 Jun 2008
Accepted
22 Aug 2008
First published
03 Oct 2008

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2008,10, 6836-6841

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On the self assembly of short chain alkanedithiols

H. Hamoudi, Z. Guo, M. Prato, C. Dablemont, W. Q. Zheng, B. Bourguignon, M. Canepa and V. A. Esaulov, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2008, 10, 6836 DOI: 10.1039/B809760G

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