
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baker, MV 
A1  - Landau, J 
T1  - Self Assembled Alkanethiolate Monolayers as Thin Insulating Films
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1995
VL  - 48
IS  - 6
SP  - 1201
EP  - 1211
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9951201 
N2  - Simple devices that contain alkanethiolate monolayers sandwiched between conducting films were prepared by fixing a gold film to the surface of an alkanethiolate monolayer (on a gold substrate) with silver paint. These devices, and similar devices that did not contain alkanethiolate monolayers, were tested as resistors in d.c . circuits. The devices that contained octadecanethiolate monolayers had resistances of approximately 1012 &#937;, 10 orders of magnitude higher than the resistance of devices that contained no monolayers. Sulfur- terminated alkanethiolate monolayers were prepared by treatment of carboxylic acid-terminated monolayers with vapours of thionyl chloride followed by vapours of hexane-1,6-dithiol. Attempts to use the sulfur-containing groups at the surface of this monolayer as 'molecular glue' to attach a flexible gold film to the surface of the monolayer were unsuccessful. 
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