Quantitating the Balance between Enthalpic and Entropic Forces in Alkanethiol/Gold Monolayer Self Assembly
Quantitating the Balance between Enthalpic and Entropic Forces in Alkanethiol/Gold Monolayer Self Assembly
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DOI:
10.1021/ja961565r
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发表时间:
1996-10
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15
通讯作者:
H. M. Schessler;and D. S. Karpovich;G. Blanchard
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作者:
H. M. Schessler;and D. S. Karpovich;G. Blanchard
We have studied the temperature and adsorbate concentration dependence of alkanethiol/gold monolayer formation in situ and in real time using a quartz crystal microbalance to monitor the rate of reaction. The temperature dependence of the experimental rate constants, for a given concentration, demonstrates that the formation of these monolayers is not diffusion rate limited for the conditions we report here. Our data are modeled accurately by the Langmuir adsorption isotherm and, using this model, we have determined the adsorption and desorption rate constants for monolayer self assembly. We have extracted from these data the thermodynamic quantities ΔGads, ΔHads, and ΔSads for monolayer formation. For 1-octadecanethiol adsorption from n-hexane onto gold, ΔGads is temperature dependent and is ca. −5.5 kcal/mol, ΔHads = −20 ± 1 kcal/mol, and ΔSads = −48 ± 1 cal/(mol·K). These data have direct bearing on the broader field of interface chemistry because they underscore the dominant role that entropy plays in...