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Soria FA, Zhang W, van Duin ACT, Patrito EM. Thermal Stability of Organic Monolayers Grafted to Si(111): Insights from ReaxFF Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:30969-30981. [PMID: 28810729 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b05444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We used the ReaxFF reactive molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the chemical mechanisms and kinetics of thermal decomposition processes of silicon surfaces grafted with different organic molecules via Si-C bonds at atomistic level. In this work, we considered the Si(111) surface grafted with n-alkyl (ethyl, propyl, pentyl, and decyl) layers in 50% coverage and, Si-CH3, Si-CCCH3 and Si-CHCHCH3 layers in full coverage. Si radicals primarily formed by the homolytic cleavage of Si-C bonds play a key role in the dehydrogenation processes that lead to the decomposition of the monolayers. Contrary to commonly proposed mechanisms that only involve a single Si atom center, we found that the main decomposition pathways require two Si lattice atoms to proceed. The ability of surface silyl radicals to dehydrogenate the organic molecules depends on the flexibility of the carbon backbones of the organic molecules as well as on the C-H bond strength. The dehydrogenation of n-alkyl chains mainly involves the H atoms of the β-carbon (leading to 1-alkene desorption). However, as the surface coverage decreases, the flexibility of the alkyl chains allows for the dehydrogenation of any methylene group and even the terminal methyl group of the long decyl layer. On the contrary, the rigid carbon backbone of the Si-CCCH3 and Si-CHCHCH3 moieties hinders the dehydrogenation of the terminal methyl group, which confers these layers a higher thermal stability. For all layers, the surface ends up mostly hydrogenated as Si-C bonds break and new Si-H bonds are formed during the dehydrogenation reactions.
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- Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Quarels RD, Zhai X, Kuruppu N, Hedlund JK, Ellsworth AA, Walker AV, Garno JC, Ragains JR. Application of visible-light photosensitization to form alkyl-radical-derived thin films on gold. BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY 2017; 8:1863-1877. [PMID: 29046834 PMCID: PMC5629420 DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.8.187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 08/16/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Visible-light irradiation of phthalimide esters in the presence of the photosensitizer [Ru(bpy)3]2+ and the stoichiometric reducing agent benzyl nicotinamide results in the formation of alkyl radicals under mild conditions. This approach to radical generation has proven useful for the synthesis of small organic molecules. Herein, we demonstrate for the first time the visible-light photosensitized deposition of robust alkyl thin films on Au surfaces using phthalimide esters as the alkyl radical precursors. In particular, we combine visible-light photosensitization with particle lithography to produce nanostructured thin films, the thickness of which can be measured easily using AFM cursor profiles. Analysis with AFM demonstrated that the films are robust and resistant to mechanical force while contact angle goniometry suggests a multilayered and disordered film structure. Analysis with IRRAS, XPS, and TOF SIMS provides further insights.
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- Rashanique D Quarels
- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, 232 Choppin Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, 232 Choppin Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, 232 Choppin Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
- Department of Materials Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, 232 Choppin Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, 232 Choppin Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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Sheridan MV, Lam K, Sharafi M, Schneebeli ST, Geiger WE. Anodic Methods for Covalent Attachment of Ethynylferrocenes to Electrode Surfaces: Comparison of Ethynyl Activation Processes. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:1645-1657. [PMID: 26756403 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The electrochemical oxidation of ferrocenes having an H- or Li-terminated ethynyl group has been studied, especially as it relates to their covalent anchoring to carbon surfaces. The anodic oxidation of lithioethynylferrocene (1-Li) results in rapid loss of Li(+) and formation of the ethynyl-based radical FeCp(η(5)-C5H4)(C≡C), (1, Cp = η(5)-C5H5), which reacts with the electrode. Chemically modified electrodes (CMEs) were thereby produced containing strongly bonded, ethynyl-linked monolayers and electrochemically controlled multilayers. Strong attachments of ethynylferrocenes to gold and platinum surfaces were also possible. The lithiation/anodic oxidation process is a mirror analogue of the diazonium/cathodic reduction process for preparation of aryl-modified CMEs. A second method produced an ethynylferrocene-modified electrode by direct anodic oxidation of the H-terminated ethynylferrocene (1-H) at a considerably more positive potential. Both processes produced robust modified electrodes with well-defined ferrocene-based surface cyclic voltammetry waves that remained unchanged for as many as 10(4) scans. Ferrocene derivatives in which the ethynyl moiety was separated from the cyclopentadienyl ring by an ether group showed very similar behavior. DFT calculations were performed on the relevant redox states of 1-H, 1-Li, and 1, with emphasis on the ferrocenyl vs ethynyl character of their high valence orbitals. Whereas the HOMOs of both 1-H and 1-Li have some ethynyl character, the SOMOs of the corresponding monocations are strictly ferrocenium in makeup. Predominant ethynyl character returns to the highest valence orbitals after loss of Li(+) from [1-Li](+) or loss of H(+) from [1-H](2+). These anodic processes hold promise for the controlled chemical modification of carbon and other electrode surfaces by a variety of ethynyl or alkynyl-linked organic and metal-containing systems.
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- Matthew V Sheridan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States
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Peng W, Rupich SM, Shafiq N, Gartstein YN, Malko AV, Chabal YJ. Silicon Surface Modification and Characterization for Emergent Photovoltaic Applications Based on Energy Transfer. Chem Rev 2015; 115:12764-96. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Weina Peng
- Department of Materials
Science and Engineering and ‡Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Materials
Science and Engineering and ‡Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Materials
Science and Engineering and ‡Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Materials
Science and Engineering and ‡Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Materials
Science and Engineering and ‡Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Materials
Science and Engineering and ‡Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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Wong KT, Lewis NS. What a difference a bond makes: the structural, chemical, and physical properties of methyl-terminated Si(111) surfaces. Acc Chem Res 2014; 47:3037-44. [PMID: 25192516 DOI: 10.1021/ar500207y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The chemical, electronic, and structural properties of surfaces are affected by the chemical termination of the surface. Two-step halogenation/alkylation of silicon provides a scalable, wet-chemical method for grafting molecules onto the silicon surface. Unlike other commonly studied wet-chemical methods of surface modification, such as self-assembly of monolayers on metals or hydrosilylation on silicon, the two-step method enables attachment of small alkyl chains, even methyl groups, to a silicon surface with high surface coverage and homogeneity. The methyl-terminated Si(111) surface, by comparison to hydrogen-terminated Si(111), offers a unique opportunity to study the effects of the first surface bond connecting the overlayer to the surface. This Account describes studies of methyl-terminated Si(111), which have shown that the H-Si(111) and CH3-Si(111) surfaces are structurally nearly identical, yet impart significantly different chemical and electronic properties to the resulting Si surface. The structure of methyl-terminated Si(111) formed by a two-step halogenation/methylation process has been studied by a variety of spectroscopic methods. A covalent Si-C bond is oriented normal to the surface, with the methyl group situated directly atop a surface Si atom. Multiple spectroscopic methods have shown that methyl groups achieve essentially complete coverage of the surface atoms while maintaining the atomically flat, terraced structure of the original H-Si(111) surface. Thus, the H-Si(111) and CH3-Si(111) surface share essentially identical structures aside from the replacement of a Si-H bond with a Si-C bond. Despite their structural similarity, hydrogen and methyl termination exhibit markedly different chemical passivation. Specifically, CH3-Si(111) exhibits significantly greater oxidation resistance than H-Si(111) in air and in aqueous electrolyte under photoanodic current flow. Both surfaces exhibit similar thermal stability in vacuum, and the Si-H and Si-C bond strengths are expected to be very similar, so the results suggest that methyl termination presents a greater kinetic barrier to oxidation of the underlying Si surface. Hydrogen termination of Si(111) provides nearly perfect electronic passivation of surface states (i.e., less than 1 electronic defect per 40 million surface atoms), but this electronic passivation is rapidly degraded by oxidation in air or under electrochemical conditions. In contrast, methyl termination provides excellent electronic passivation that resists degradation due to oxidation. Moreover, alkylation modifies the surface electronic structure by creating a surface dipole that effectively changes the electron affinity of the Si surface, facilitating modification of the charge-transfer kinetics across Si/metal or Si/electrolyte junctions. This Account also briefly describes recent studies of mixed monolayers formed by the halogenation/alkylation of silicon. Mixed monolayers allow attachment of bulkier groups that enable secondary chemistry at the surface (e.g., attachment of molecular catalysts or seeding of atomic layer deposition) to be combined with methyl termination of remaining unreacted surface sites. Thus, secondary chemistry can be enabled while maintaining the chemical and electronic passivation provided by complete termination of surface atoms with Si-C bonds. Such studies of mixed monolayers demonstrate the potential use of a wet-chemical surface modification scheme that combines both chemical and electronic passivation.
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- Keith T Wong
- Beckman Institute and Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology , 210 Noyes Laboratory, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Frederick E, Dickerson PN, Zhong YL, Bernasek SL. Substituent effects on the kinetics of bifunctional styrene SAM formation on H-terminated Si. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:7687-7694. [PMID: 24911116 DOI: 10.1021/la501417s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on metal and semiconductor surfaces are of interest in electronic devices, molecular and biosensors, and nanostructured surface preparation. Bifunctionalized molecules, where one functional group attaches to the surface while the other remains free for further modification, allow for the rational design of multilayer chemisorbed thin films. In this study, substituted styrenes acted as a model system for SAM formation through an alkene moiety. Substituents ranging from activating to strongly deactivating for aromatic reactions were used to probe the effect of the electronic properties of functionalizing molecules on the rate of SAM formation. Substituted styrene SAMs were formed on hydrogen-terminated p-type Si(100) and n-type Si(111) via sonochemical functionalization. Monolayers were characterized via ellipsometry, IR spectroscopy, contact angle goniometry, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Initial rates of reaction for molecules that selectively attached through the alkene were further studied. A linear relationship was observed between the initial rates of surface functionalization and the substituent electron donating/withdrawing ability for the substituted styrenes, as described by their respective Hammett constants. This study provides precedent for applying well quantified homogeneous chemical reaction relationships to reactions at the solid-liquid interface.
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- Esther Frederick
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University , Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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Peczonczyk SL, Brown ES, Maldonado S. Secondary functionalization of allyl-terminated GaP(111)A surfaces via heck cross-coupling metathesis, hydrosilylation, and electrophilic addition of bromine. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:156-164. [PMID: 24313848 DOI: 10.1021/la403558k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The functionalization of single crystalline gallium phosphide (GaP) (111)A surfaces with allyl groups has been performed using a sequential chlorine-activation/Grignard reaction process. Increased hydrophobicity following reaction of a GaP(111)A surface with C3H5MgCl was observed through water contact angle measurements. Infrared spectra of GaP(111)A samples after reaction with C3H5MgCl showed the asymmetric C═C and C═C-H modes diagnostic of surface-attached allyl groups. The stability of allyl-terminated GaP(111)A surfaces under ambient and aqueous conditions was investigated. XP spectra of allyl-terminated GaP(111)A highlighted a significant resistance against interfacial oxidation both in air and in water relative to the native interface. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy indicated a change in the flat-band potential of allyl-terminated GaP(111)A electrodes immersed in water relative to native GaP(111)A surfaces. Further, the flat-band potentials for allyl-terminated electrodes were insensitive to changes in solution pH. The utility of surface-bound allyl groups for covalent secondary functionalization of GaP(111)A interfaces was assessed through three separate reactions: Heck cross-coupling metathesis, hydrosilylation, and electrophilic addition of bromine reactions. Addition of aryl groups across the olefins on allyl-terminated GaP(111)A via Heck cross coupling was performed and confirmed through high-resolution F 1s and C 1s XP spectra and IR spectra. Control experiments with GaP(111)A surfaces functionalized with short alkanes indicated no evidence for metathesis. Hydrosilylation reactions were separately performed. Si 2s XP spectra, in conjunction with infrared spectra, similarly showed secondary evidence of surface functionalization for allyl-terminated GaP(111)A but not for CH3-terminated GaP(111)A surfaces. Similar analyses showed electrophilic addition of Br2 across the terminal olefin on an allyl-terminated GaP(111)A surface after exposure to dilute Br2 solutions in CH2Cl2. The work presented herein establishes a set of secondary reaction strategies utilizing allyl-terminated surfaces to modify chemically protected GaP surfaces.
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- Sabrina L Peczonczyk
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan , 930 North University, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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Majzik Z, Drevniok B, Kamiński W, Ondráček M, McLean AB, Jelínek P. Room temperature discrimination of adsorbed molecules and attachment sites on the Si(111)-7 × 7 surface using a qPlus sensor. ACS NANO 2013; 7:2686-2692. [PMID: 23432213 DOI: 10.1021/nn400102m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In this paper, we show that simultaneous noncontact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is a powerful tool for molecular discrimination on the Si(111)-7 × 7 surface, even at room temperature. Using density functional theory modeling, we justify this approach and show that the force response allows us to distinguish straightforwardly between molecular adsorbates and common defects, such as vacancies. Finally, we prove that STM/nc-AFM method is able to determine attachment sites of molecules deposited on semiconductor surface at room temperature.
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- Zsolt Majzik
- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnicka 10, 162 53 Prague, Czech Republic
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Hadj FAE, Amiar A, Cherkaoui M, Chazalviel JN, Ozanam F. Study of organic grafting of the silicon surface from 4-nitrobenzene diazonium tetrafluoroborate. Electrochim Acta 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2012.03.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Bélanger D, Pinson J. Electrografting: a powerful method for surface modification. Chem Soc Rev 2011; 40:3995-4048. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cs00149j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 751] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Perrine KA, Teplyakov AV. Reactivity of selectively terminated single crystal silicon surfaces. Chem Soc Rev 2010; 39:3256-74. [DOI: 10.1039/b822965c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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