Recent studies dealing with the structural, electronic, chemical and catalytic properties of
well-defined bimetallic surfaces are reviewed. LEED and STM show that two metals …

In the early 1930s, amphiphile monolayers were used to control the wetting behavior of
metal condenser plates in steam engines. 1-3 Wettability control was desired because …

Thin films are often grown away from thermodynamic equilibrium and their morphology
becomes determined by kinetics. The final structure of the epitaxial film is decided in the very …

The self-assembly mechanism of alkanethiol monolayers on the (111) surface of gold was
discovered with the use of an ultrahigh-vacuum scanning tunneling microscope. Monolayer …

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and its Application presents a unified view of the rapidly
growing field of STM, and its many derivatives. A thorough discussion of the various …

Using an ultrahigh-vacuum scanning tunneling microscope we have discovered evidence
for a novel mechanism by which Au vacancy islands form during assembly of alkanethiol …

The growth of fullerene films by vapor deposition on Au (111) was studied using UHV-STM,
LEED, AES, and TOF-SIMS. The fullerenes were found to grow in a layer-by-layer manner …

Because of gold's resistance to oxidation and corrosion, historically chemists have
considered this metal inert. However, decades ago, researchers discovered that highly …

An analysis of the island size and separation distributions of Fe islands, observed in the
initial stages of growth in the homoepitaxy of Fe on Fe (001) whiskers, shows scaling …

Cobalt grows initially on Cu (111) in the form of bilayer islands with the shape of triangles of
alternate orientation. This is probably related to the initial stacking sequence of the Co …