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In Situ SIMS and IR Spectroscopy of Well-defined Surfaces Prepared by Soft Landing of Mass-selected Ions
Published on: June 16, 2014
Electrospray soft-landing for the construction of non-covalent molecular nanostructures using charged droplets under
Jian Hou1, Qingna Zheng2, Abraham K Badu-Tawiah3
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. znie@iccas.ac.cn.
Abstract:
An electrospray soft-landing (SL) technique was utilized to create 2D nano-networks on HOPG under ambient conditions. A 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexahydroxy-triphenylene close-packing structure was observed by STM instead of unorganized clusters, as well as amine and acid nanostructures. On C18H37NH2 networks, C18H37NH3+ was identified by XPS analysis revealing retaining of charges on the SL-modified surface.

