...Mingji Wang; Kenneth M. Liechti; Vibha Srinivasan; John M. White; Peter J. Rossky; Matthew T. Stone Nanoindentation experiments were performed on a defect-free, molecular self-assembled monolayer of octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) on silicon using an interfacial force microscope (IFM). The IFM...

...-assembled monolayers. A new biaxial loading device was used to conduct a series of mixed-mode fracture experiments. Crack opening interferometry, atomic force microscopy, and angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy allowed cohesive zone sizes, fracture surface topographies, and loci of fracture...

...Z. Suo; Y. F. Gao; G. Scoles Certain organic molecules, such as alkanethiols, can adsorb on metals to form monolayers. Sometimes domains appear in the monolayers. For example, an incomplete monolayer may form islands, and a mixed-composition monolayer may separate into distinct phases. During...