NDLI: Self-assembled monolayers of terminal acetylenes as replacements for thiols in bottom-up tunneling junctions

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Rudolf, Petra Fracasso, Davide Kumar, Sumit Chiechi, Ryan C.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Why use thiols in Molecular Electronics? They stink, oxidize readily, poison catalysts, and often require nontrivial protection/deprotection chemistry. In this communication we demonstrate the fabrication of tunneling junctions formed by contact of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of terminal alkynes onto silver and gold substrates. The SAMs form spontaneously upon exposure of the substrates to ethanolic solutions of the alkynes. Characterization by vibrational spectroscopy, XPS, and contact angles shows that the packing of the SAMs is nearly identical to those formed from equivalent thiols. Electrical characterization of the junctions revealed virtually no differences between SAMs on gold and silver, yielding βAu = 1.17 ± 0.04nC−1, J0 = (2.836 ± 0.001) × 103 A cm−2 for Au, and βAg = 1.23 ± 0.09nC−1, J0 = (4.722 ± 0.002) × 103 A cm−2 for Ag. These values are in excellent agreement with junctions formed from alkanethiols of the same lengths as the alkynes, suggesting that there is no functional difference between thiols and alkynes as anchoring groups for SAMs. Yet alkynes are synthetically versatile, do not poison catalysts, are not odorous, and do not spontaneously oxidize, which are all attractive features for use in Molecular Electronics.
Starting Page	56026
Ending Page	56030
Page Count	5
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	20462069
Volume Number	4
Issue Number	99
Journal	RSC Advances
DOI	10.1039/c4ra09880c
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Cyanide Organic chemistry Infrared spectroscopy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry Chemical Engineering

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