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Potential Driven Deposition Of Polyelectrolytes Onto The Surface Of Cysteine Monolayers Assembled On Gold, Wesley Sanders, Mark Anderson
Potential Driven Deposition Of Polyelectrolytes Onto The Surface Of Cysteine Monolayers Assembled On Gold, Wesley Sanders, Mark Anderson
Mark R. Anderson
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and the quartz crystal microbalance measurements are used to examine the ability of potential applied to a substrate to create, in situ, conditions favorable for the electrostatic deposition of polyelectrolytes onto a gold substrate modified by the self-assembly of cysteine. Cysteine is a zwitterionic compound that, when confined to a substrate, has the ability to establish either a net positive or a net negative interfacial charge, depending on the conditions. As such, cysteine modified interfaces could possibly be used as a versatile substrate for deposition of either cationic or anionic polyelectrolytes. The potential of zero charge of …