Amy V. Walker

TL;DR: It is suggested that the competition between the penetration and overlayer film nucleation channels is regulated by small differences in the Al-SAM terminal group interaction energies, which point to a new perspective on organometallic and metal-solvent interactions.

TL;DR: Observations of the interaction of vapor-deposited Al, Cu, Ag, and Au atoms on a methoxy-terminated self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of HS(CH(2))(16)OCH(3) on polycrystalline Au are interpreted in terms of a thermally activated penetration mechanism involving dynamic formation of diffusion channels in the SAM via hopping of alkanethiolate-metal (RSM-) moieties across the surface.

TL;DR: The effects of choice of basis sets and exchange-correlation functionals on the relative stabilities and other properties of the calculated structures are examined and there is good agreement between calculated and experimental data for clusters with up to six constituent atoms.

TL;DR: In this article, the interaction of vapor-deposited titanium and gold with a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of 4-[4′-(phenylethynyl)-phenylethsynyl]-benzenthiol, an unsubstituted oligo(phenylene-ethynylene), chemisorbed on a gold substrate was investigated.

TL;DR: Investigation of the efficacy of ILs as matrices in time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry and inmass spectrometric imaging (MS imaging) indicates that IL matrices are suitable for imaging MS.