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Thermal behavior of Alkanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers on the Cu(111)

  • Lee, Sun S.;Myung M. Sung;Kim, Yunsoo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 1999.07a
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    • pp.181-181
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    • 1999
  • Self-assembled monolayers(SAMs) of alkanethiol have been formed on the Cu(111) surfaces in vacuum. The thermal behavior of octanethiol-based SAMs on the Cu(111) surface have been examined in ultrahigh vacuum. Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), it is found that the monolayers are stable up to about 500K in vacuum. Decomposition is signaled by a decrease in the intensity of C ls peak, accompanied by an increase of the intensity of the Cu 2p peak. However, the intensity of the S 2p peak doesn't change much as a function of annealing temperature. Thermal the decomposition mass spectra show that n-alkene is the predominant species desorbing from the surface in the 500-600K temperature range. The totality of these data leads to the conclusion that the monolayers decompose through the S-C bond cleavage by hydrogen elimination reaction, resulting in the desorption of hydrocarbon moiety as n-alkene. Following this initial decomposition step, Cu2S layers are observed on the surface. For comparison, attempts were also made to examine the thermal behavior of octanethiol-based SAMs on the Cu(111) surface in air. It has been shown that the SAMs on the Cu(111) surfaces begin to desorb with the oxidation of the thiolate to sulfonate at 400K. Upon annealing to 450K, the monolayer has almost completely desorbed as indicated by the virtual disappearance of the S 2p peak.

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The Thioacetate-Functionalized Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au: Toward High-Performance Ion-Selective Electrode for Ag+

  • Jin, Jian;Zhou, Wei-Jie;Chen, Ying;Liu, Yi-Long;Sun, Xiao-Qiang;Xi, Hai-Tao
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.601-604
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    • 2014
  • Two classes of morpholino-substitued thioacetate have been successfully synthesized and their electrochemical properties of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on Au electrode are measured by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The barrier property of the SAMs-modified surfaces is evaluated by using potassium ferro/ferri cyanide. The results suggest that the arenethioacetate forms higher-quality close-packed blocking monolayers in comparison with alkanethioacetate. Furthermore, it has shown that the barrier properties of these monolayers can be significantly improved by mixed SAMs formation with decanethiol. From our experimental results we find that the electron transfer reaction of $[Fe(CN)_6]^{3/4-}$ redox couple occurs predominantly through the pinholes and defects present in the SAM and both SAMs show a good and fast capacity in recognition for $Ag^+$. The morphological and elementary composition have also been examined by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS).

Carbamate-Based Surface Reactions for Release of Amine Molecules from Electroactive Self-Assembled Monolayers

  • Hong, Dae-Wha;Kang, Kyung-Tae;Hong, Seok-Pyo;Shon, Hyun-Kyong;Lee, Tae-Geol;Choi, In-Sung S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.08a
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    • pp.208-209
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    • 2011
  • In this work, we developed self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkanethiols on gold that can release amine groups, when an electrical potential was applied to the gold. The strategy was based on the introduction of the electroactive carbamate group, which underwent the two-electron oxidation with simultaneous release of the amine molecules, to alkanethiols. The synthesis of the designed thiol compounds was achieved by coupling isocyanate-containing compound with hydroquinone. The electroactive thiols were mixed with hydroxyl-containing alkanethiol [$HS(CH_2)_{11}OH$] to form mixed monolayers, and cyclic votammetry was used for the characterization of the release. The mixed SAMs showed a first oxidation peak at +540 mV (versus Ag/AgCl reference electrode), demonstrating irreversible conversion from carbamate to hydroqinone with simultaneous release of the amine groups. The second and third cycles showed typical reversible redox reaction of hydroquinone and quione: the oxidation and reduction occurred at +290 mV and -110 mV, respectively. The measurement of ToF-SIMS further indicates that electrochemical-assisted chemical reaction successfully released amine groups. This new SAM-based electrochemistry would be applicable for direct release of biologically active molecules that contain amine groups.

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Two-dimensional(2D) self-assembly of fine gold nanospheres using laser patterning (레이저 패턴을 이용한 금 나노입자의 2 차원적 자기조립)

  • Huh K.S.;Cho S.H.;Kim J.G.;Chang W.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.475-476
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    • 2006
  • Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) formed by the adsorption of alkanethiols, HS(CH2)nX, where X is an organic functional group, onto gold surfaces have attracted widespread interest as templates for the fabrication of molecular and biomolecular microstructures. Previously photopatterning has been thought of as being restricted to the micron scale, because of the well-known diffraction limit. So, we have explored a novel approach to nanofabrication by utilizing a femtosecond laser.

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Fabrication of Au(111) substrate and tunneling current characteristics of self-assembled Viologen molecule (Au(111) 기판 제작과 자기조립된 Viologen 분자의 tunneling current 특성)

  • Lee, Nam-Suk;Choi, Won-Suk;Qian, Dong-Jin;Kwon, Young-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.255-256
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    • 2006
  • The electrical properties of viologen ($VC_8SH$) were studied in terms of the tunneling current characteristics using self-assembling techniques and ultra high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (UHV-STM). We fabricated the Au substrate were deposited by thermal evaporation system($420^{\circ}C$). Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) were prepared on Au(111), which had been thermally deposited onto freshly cleaved, heated mica. The Au substrate was exposed to a 1 mM/L solution of Octanethiol in ethanol for 24 h to form a monolayer. After through rinsing the sample, it was exposed to a 0.1 mM/L solution of $VC_8SH$ in ethanol for 30 min. We measurement of the morphology on the single viologen molecule. The current-voltage (I-V) properties were measured at arbitary configured points on the surface of the sample by using a STS.

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Electrochemical Properties of Self-Assembled Viologen Monolayers Using Quartz Crystal Analyzer (QCA를 이용한 자기조립된 Viologen 단분자막의 전기화학적 특성)

  • Lee, Dong-Yun;Park, Sang-Hyun;Shin, Hoon-Kyu;Park, Jae-Chul;Chang, Jeong-Soo;Kwon, Young-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.04b
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    • pp.141-144
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    • 2004
  • Molecular self-assembled of surfactant viologens are recently interesting because they can be from functional electrodes as well as micelle assemblies which can be profitably utilized for display devices, electrochemical studies and electrocatalysis as electron acceptor or electron mediator. The electrochemical behavior of self-assembled viologen monolayer on Au electrode surface has been investigated with QCM which has been known as nano-gram order mass detector. A monolayer of viologen is immobilized on the gold electrode surface and the normal potentials corresponding to the to the successive one-electron transfer processes of the viologen actives are two peaks in 0.1mol/l phosphate buffer solution respectively. These result suggest that the viologen SAMs are stable and well-behaved monolayers.

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