COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THIOL FILMS ON C(0001) ANDAu(111)SURFACES BY SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY

F. Terán Arce, M. E. Vela, R. C. Salvarezza and A. J. Arvia
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F. Terán Arce: Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), Sucursal 4, Casilla de Correo 16, (1900) La Plata, Argentina
M. E. Vela: Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), Sucursal 4, Casilla de Correo 16, (1900) La Plata, Argentina
R. C. Salvarezza: Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), Sucursal 4, Casilla de Correo 16, (1900) La Plata, Argentina
A. J. Arvia: Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), Sucursal 4, Casilla de Correo 16, (1900) La Plata, Argentina

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 1997, vol. 04, issue 04, 637-649

Abstract: The structures resulting from 1-dodecanethiol, 1-butanethiol and 1,9-nonanedithiol films produced on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and gold(111) have been comparatively studied by scanning probe microscopies. Molecular resolution images resulting from atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of different thiol films show the formation of arrays of molecules parallel to the HOPG surface. The electrochemical response of the ferro-ferricyanide reaction was used to test the characteristics of electron transfer processes in thiol-covered HOPG as compared to the bare substrate. The decrease in the heterogeneous rate constant for the test reaction appears to be directly related to the degree of film thickness uniformity. For comparison, films with the same kind of thiols were produced on Au(111). Although the electrochemical characteristics of these films appear to be the same irrespective of the substrate nature, the structure of the films on Au(111) is different from that produced on HOPG.

Date: 1997
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