화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol.99, No.39, 14198-14200, 1995
Hydrogen-Bond Interaction Between Self-Assembled Monolayers and Adsorbed Water-Molecules and Its Implications for Cluster Formation
Infrared spectroscopy is used to investigate the adsorption of D2O onto self-assembled monolayers of methyl 16-mercaptohexadecanoate on gold. The D2O molecules are shown to interact with the carbonyl oxygens of the monolayer, forming hydrogen bonds and causing a structural rearrangement of the CO2CH3 terminal group. The number of hydrogen bonds decreases as the amorphous-like, essentially flat (two-dimensional) ice overlayer that forms at 100 K changes into polycrystalline-like ice upon annealing at 140 K. This decrease is a consequence of the formation of three-dimensional ice clusters, which leaves a large fraction of the monolayer surface bare.