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Synthesis And Characterization Of Complex Molecular Assemblies On Surfaces, Nitesh Madaan

Theses and Dissertations

The research presented in this dissertation is focused on the construction of complex molecular structures on planar gold and silicon dioxide surfaces using a variety of surface modification techniques, along with thorough surface characterization at each modification step. The dissertation is structured into six separate chapters. In Chapter 1, an introduction to the importance and implications of molecular level surface modification, commonly employed surface modification methods, and available surface characterization techniques is presented. Chapter 2 shows applications of novel methodologies for the functionalization of gold surfaces using alkane dithiol self-assembled monolayers and thiol-ene click chemistry. The resulting functionalized gold substrates …

The Surface Chemistry Of Adatom Mediated Oligomers Of Aromatic Diisocyanides And Dithiols On Au(111) And Granular Films, John Kestell

Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

The Surface Chemistry of Adatom Mediated Oligomers

of Aromatic Diisocyanides and Dithiols on Au(111) and Granular Films

by

John D. Kestell

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Under the supervision of Professor W. T. Tysoe

Two seminal events are thought by many to be the birth of nanotechnology and molecular electronics. In 1959, Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman gave his famous "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" lecture to an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech. The transistor had been invented by Bell Laboratories in 1947, and already the race was on for device miniaturization. Feynman's lecture focused on some of …