Self-assembled monolayers and titanium dioxide: From surface patterning to potential applications

• Yaron Paz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 845–861, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.94

• monolayers may affect the photocatalytic properties of titania as well as be affected by these properties. Likewise, the superhydrophilicity of TiO2 known to be induced upon exposure to UV light [13] may affect the chemisorption process of SAMs. This gives rise to diverse phenomena, which can be utilized in

• the metallic micro-islands were denser than monolayers chemisorbed on TiO2 substrates that had no metallic islands. Results were explained in terms of charging effects [18]. That charging of the substrate may affect the chemisorption of organosiloxane monolayers can be deduced also from a comparison

• grafting density with respect to chemisorption by conventional methods (2.8–3.0 molecules per nm2 versus 4.3–4.8 molecules per nm2). It is worth mentioning that a study on organosilane monolayers formed on the surfaces of zirconia and titania (anatase and rutile), by a gas–phase process employing

STM visualisation of counterions and the effect of charges on self-assembled monolayers of macrocycles

• Tibor Kudernac,
• Natalia Shabelina,
• Wael Mamdouh,
• Sigurd Höger and
• Steven De Feyter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 674–680, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.72

• principle, an additional functionality can be introduced in physisorbed molecular monolayers by co-adsorption of, for instance, thiols [8], combining physisorption and chemisorption. It can be envisioned that counterions of charged molecules that are adsorbed at the surface could be used not only to control

Sensing surface PEGylation with microcantilevers

• Natalija Backmann,
• Natascha Kappeler,
• Thomas Braun,
• François Huber,
• Hans-Peter Lang,
• Christoph Gerber and
• Roderick Y. H. Lim

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 3–13, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.2

• , time resolved manner [13][14]. By an asymmetrical chemisorption of molecules (i.e., on one side of the microcantilever), the sensors can detect processes in “static” mode by measuring the bending of a microcantilever due to stress formation during the adsorption process; or in “dynamic” mode where the

• shown in Figure 2A, the chemisorption of mPEG–SH chains generates a compressive force that bends the Au-coated microcantilevers downwards. This behavior is significantly different to that of the cantilever pre-functionalized with EG4–C11–SH where no adsorption-related bending is observed and confirms