Effect of Humidity and Hydrophobicity on the Tribological Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers

The tribological properties of two distinctive alkanethiol SAMs, 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHA) and 1-octadecanethiol (ODT), on gold substrates in various humidity conditions were examined by lateral force microscopy (LFM). The results suggest that hydrophobic ODT SAM is insensitive to humidity....

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Main Authors: Yen-Chih Liao, William Hargrove, Brandon L. Weeks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/748295
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