Fluorocarbon contaminates such as perfluorooctane acid or perfluorooctane sulfonate can be found in waste water from several industrial branches, mostly related to the textile industry. The problem arises from textile finishing for oleophobic and hydrophobic properties where fluorocarbons are still without equivalent alternative. Fluorocarbons can be either release during the finishing process ...

We report the nonlocal desorption of chlorobenzene molecules from the Si(111)-(7×7) surface by charge injection from the laterally distant tip of a scanning tunneling microscope and demonstrate remote control of the manipulation process by precise selection of the atomic site for injection. Nonlocal desorption decays exponentially as a function of radial distance (decay length ∼100  A) from the...

Fluorescence intensity and its ratio mapping combined with time-dependent optical microscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were used to understand morphology evolution of local aggregates and neighboring regions for organic solar cells. Three solvents with different boiling points including chlorobenzene (CB), 1,3-dichlorobenzene (1,3-DCB) and 1,2-dichlorobenzene (1,2-DCB) were used to engi...