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Title: Structural stability of physisorbed air-oxidized decanethiols on Au(111)
Authors: Kap, Özlem
Kabanoy, Nikolai
Tsvetanova, Martina
Varlıklı, Canan
Klaysyuk, Andrey L.
Zandvliet, Harold J. W.
Sotthewes, Kai
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Abstract: We have studied the dynamic behavior of decanethiol and air-oxidized decanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on Au(111) using time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy at room temperature. The air-oxidized decanethiols arrange in a lamellae-like structure leaving the herringbone reconstruction of the Au(111) surface intact, indicating a rather weak interaction between the molecules and the surface. Successive STM images show that the air-oxidized molecules are structurally more stable as compared to the nonoxidized decanethiol molecules. This is further confirmed by performing current-time traces with the feedback loop disabled at different locations and at different molecular phases. Density function theory calculations reveal that the diffusion barrier of the physisorbed oxidized decanethiol molecule on Au(111) is about 100 meV higher than the diffusion barrier of a chemisorbed Au-decanethiol complex on Au(111). A two-dimensional activity map of individual current-time traces performed on the air-oxidized decanethiol phase reveals that all the dynamic events take place within the vacancy lines between the air-oxidized decanethiols. These results reveal that the oxidation of thiols provides a pathway to produce more robust and stable self-assembled monolayers at ambient conditions.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02806
https://hdl.handle.net/11147/8799
ISSN: 1932-7447
1932-7455
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