TY - JOUR
T1 - Growth of a self-assembled monolayer by fractal aggregation
AU - Schwartz, D. K.
AU - Steinberg, S.
AU - Israelachvili, J.
AU - Zasadzinski, J. A.N.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Atomic force microscope images show that self-assembled monolayers of octadecyltrichlorosilane form on mica by nucleating isolated, self-similar domains. With increasing coverage, the fractal dimension of the growing domains evolves from 1.6 to 1.8. At higher coverage, continued growth is limited by adsorption from solution. Monte Carlo simulations that include, for the first time, adsorption as well as surface diffusion qualitatively reproduce both the growth kinetics and evolution of fractal structure, much better than a two-dimensional diffusion-limited-aggregation model.
AB - Atomic force microscope images show that self-assembled monolayers of octadecyltrichlorosilane form on mica by nucleating isolated, self-similar domains. With increasing coverage, the fractal dimension of the growing domains evolves from 1.6 to 1.8. At higher coverage, continued growth is limited by adsorption from solution. Monte Carlo simulations that include, for the first time, adsorption as well as surface diffusion qualitatively reproduce both the growth kinetics and evolution of fractal structure, much better than a two-dimensional diffusion-limited-aggregation model.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3354
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3354
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000976768
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 69
SP - 3354
EP - 3357
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 23
ER -