Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers: Efficient, Chemically Defined Tools for Cell Biology

Scanning Force Microscopies Can Image Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers

This paper demonstrates that scanning probe microscopies (SPMs) can image patterned self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) formed by microcontact printing. Lateral force microscopy (LFM) and force modulation microscopy (FMM) showed contrast between regions of patterned SAMs terminated by different chemical functionalities. Normal force microscopy (NFM) typically showed less contrast than LFM or FMM b...

Synthesis of Orthogonally Functionalized Oligosaccharides for Self-assembled Monolayers and as Multimodal Tools in Chemical Biology

Electron-beam patterned self-assembled monolayers as templates for Cu electrodeposition and lift-off

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of 4'-methylbiphenyl-4-thiol (MBP0) adsorbed on polycrystalline gold substrates served as templates to control electrochemical deposition of Cu structures from acidic solution, and enabled the subsequent lift-off of the metal structures by attachment to epoxy glue. By exploiting the negative-resist behaviour of MBP0, the SAM was patterned by means of electron-be...

A Selective Etching Solution for Use with Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers of Alkanethiolates on Gold

Nl icrocontact pr int ing t r rCPtr is a technique that generates patterned self-assembled monolayers lSAtr{s t2 of' alkanethiolates t typically, hexadecanethiolate ) on the surfaces of goid,1 silver,l l and copper,l and of alkylsiloxanes on hydroxyl-terminated surf'aces.r' Patterned SAI{s of alkanethiolates serve as nanomc.ter-thick resists in certain etching solutions: the one we i.rave. used...

Crystallization on Self Assembled Monolayers

Over the past two decades, self assembled monolayers (SAMs) (Love et al., 2005; Smith et al., 2004; Ulman, 1996) have been extensively studied due to their many applications in various fields such as electrochemistry (Eckerman et al., 2010), biosensors (Nyquist et al., 2000), protein separation (Chun and Stroeve, 2002) and enantiomer separation (Mastai, 2009). SAMs are organic assemblies formed...