Mass spectrometry was performed on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of dodecanethiol on gold using the new direct analysis in real time (DART) ionization technique. Observed peaks for the SAMs included monomers, dimers, and trimers of the SAM molecules, with the dimer and trimer relative peak heights enhanced as compared to the spectra for neat dodecanethiol. The possibility that the observed p...

Well-defined tellurium nanorods have been prepared by the photolysis of (t)Bu2Te2 in an aqueous micellar system incorporating dodecanethiol as an auxiliary morphology-directing agent.

Functionalization of photocatalytic metal oxide nanoparticles TiO2, ZnO, WO3 and CuO with amine-terminated (oleylamine) thiol-terminated (1-dodecanethiol) alkyl chained ligands was studied under ambient conditions. A high selectivity observed in the binding specificity a ligand towards these different oxides. It that oleylamine binds stably to only TiO2 WO3, while 1-dodecanethiol ZnO CuO. Simil...

Mesoporous hydroxyapatites were syntesized by self-assembly method using Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as cationic surfactant and 1-dodecanethiol as pore expander with pore expander/surfactant mass ratio of 4.22 and synthesis temperature of 80 °C in different micellization pH. The field emission-scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) ...

Gold nanoparticles covered with a mixed monolayer of n-dodecanethiol and 11-mercapto-1-undecanol were prepared and found to mediate the oil-water interface, providing access to stable water droplets in oil.

The introduction of 1-dodecanethiol surface modifier results in defects repair and enhanced perovskite film stability against high humidity, which positively affect charge transport mechanisms boost the performance solar cells.

Vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy was used to study the nanoscale geometric effects on molecular conformation of dodecanethiol ligand on gold nanoparticles of varying size between 1.8 and 23 nm. By analyzing the CH3 and CH2 stretch transitions of dodecanethiol using the spectroscopic propensity rules for the SFG process, we observe the increase of the gauche defects in th...

Surfaces that exhibit hydrophobic and hydrophilic characteristics are essential when developing Lab-onChip technologies. The availability of a droplet to be maneuvered on a surface develops from hydrophobic surface characteristics, while non-protein fouling characteristics are found in hydrophilic surfaces. By combining these traits, an ideal surface can be produced for biomedical applications....

Dodecanethiol-capped gold (Au) nanocrystal superlattices can undergo a surprisingly diverse series of ordered structure transitions when heated (Goodfellow, B. W.; Rasch, M. R.; Hessel, C. M.; Patel, R. N.; Smilgies, D.-M.; Korgel, B. A. Nano Lett. 2013, 13, 5710-5714). These are the result of highly uniform changes in nanocrystal size, which subsequently force a spontaneous rearrangement of su...