Selected Wetting studies
I. Engquist, I. Lundstrom, B. Liedberg, A. N. Parikh, and D. L. Allara, Infrared
characterization of amorphous and polycrystalline D2O ice on controlled wettability self-assembled alkanethiolate
monolayers, J.Chem.Phys. 106 , 3038-3048 (1997).
N. Kacker, S.K. Kumar and D.L. Allara, Wetting-Induced Reconstruction in Molecular Surfaces, Langmuir, 13, 6366-6369(1997)
Y-T. Tao, W-L. Lin, G.D. Hietpas and D.L. Allara, An Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Chemically-Induced Dewetting in Liquid Crystalline Types of Self-Assembled Monolayers, J.Phys.Chem. B, 101, 9732-9740(1997)
Y. T. Tao, G. D. Hietpas, and D. L. Allara, HCl vapor-induced structural rearrangements of n-alkanoate self- assembled monolayers on ambient silver, copper, and aluminum surfaces, J.Am.Chem.Soc 118, 6724-6735(1996).
D. L. Allara, A. N. Parikh, and F. Rondelez, Evidence for a unique chain organization in long chain silane monolayers deposited on two widely different solid substrates, Langmuir 11, 2357-2360(1995).
S. V. Atre, B. Liedberg, and D. L. Allara, Chain length dependence of the structure and wetting properties in binary composition monolayers of OH- and CH3- terminated alkanethiolates on gold, Langmuir 11, 3882-3893(1995).
A. N. Parikh, B. Liedberg, S. V. Atre, M. Ho, and D. L. Allara, Correlation of molecular organization and substrate wettability in the self-assembly of n-alkylsiloxane monolayers,. J.Phys.Chem. 99, 9996-10008(1995)
D.L Allara, A. N. Parikh and E. Judge, The Existence of Structure Progressions and Wetting Transitions in Intermediately Disordered Monolayers of Assemblies of Alkyl Chains, J. Chem. Phys., 100, 1761-1764(1994)
P. E. Laibinis, G. M. Whitesides, D. L. Allara, A. Parikh, Y. T. Tao and R. G. Nuzzo, A Comparison of the Structures and Wetting Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers of n-Alkanethiols on the Coinage Metal Surfaces Cu, Ag and Au, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 113 7152 (1991).
R. G Nuzzo, L. H. Dubois and D. L. Allara; Fundamental
Studies of Microscopic Wetting on Organic Surfaces. 1. Formation and Structural Characterization of a Self-Consistent
Series of Polyfunctional Organic Monolayers, J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 112, 558-569 (1990)
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