1. Hexagons to Ribbons: Flipping Cyanide on Au{111}
- Author
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David L. Allara, David D. Kes, Kristopher Barr, Kevin Bui, Leticia F. Torres, Jacob N. Fauman, Adina Ciomaga, Andrew I. Guttentag, Jérôme Gilles, Paul S. Weiss, Michael Zharnikov, Yang Yang, Nichole Sullivan, Tze-Bin Song, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (LJLL), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Mathematics [UCLA], University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California-University of California, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UFR d'Arts plastiques et sciences de l'art (UP1 UFR04), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), and University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)
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Cyanide ,Isocyanide ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry ,Catalysis ,law.invention ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Colloid and Surface Chemistry ,law ,Lattice (order) ,Monolayer ,Ribbon ,[CHIM]Chemical Sciences ,Molecule ,[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,Crystallization ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Chemistry ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,0104 chemical sciences ,Blueshift ,Crystallography ,Chemical Sciences ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
Cyanide monolayers on Au{111} restructure from a hexagonal close-packed lattice to a mixed-orientation "ribbon" structure through thermal annealing. The new surface structure loses most of the observed surface features characterizing the initial as-adsorbed system with "ribbon" domain boundaries isolating rotationally offset surface regions where the orientation is guided by the underlying gold lattice. A blue shift to higher frequencies of the CN vibration to 2235cm-1 with respect to the as-adsorbed CN/Au{111} vibration at 2146 cm-1 is observed. In addition, a new low-frequency mode is observed at 145 cm-1, suggesting a chemical environment change similar to gold-cyanide crystallization. We discuss this new structure with respect to a mixed cyanide/isocyanide monolayer and propose a bonding scheme consisting of Au-CN and Au-NC bound molecules that are oriented normal to the Au{111} surface.
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- 2016