Thin Films: Preparation, Characterization, Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Highly Ordered Adsorbate Structures on Cu(111) in the Potential Regime of Hydrogen Evolution-An In-Situ STM Study

   • P. Broekmann, M. Wilms, A. Spaenig, K. Wandelt

   Pages 1-16

3. Electrochemical Epitaxial Growth, Structure, and Electrocatalytic Properties of Noble Metal Thin Films on Au(111) and Au(100)

   • Kohei Uosaki, Shen Ye, Toshihiro Kondo, Hideo Naohara

   Pages 17-35

4. Electrochemical Properties of Pd/Pt(111) Adlayers

   • Juan M. Feliu, Bernabé Alvarez, Víctor Climent, Antonio Rodes

   Pages 37-52

5. Temperature-Dependence of the Under-Potential Deposition of Ag on Pt(111) in H2SO4

   • Zorana Radovic-Hrapovic, Gregory Jerkiewicz

   Pages 53-67

6. Functionalization of Underpotentially Deposited Metal Layers with Organics, Metals, and Ions

   • Richard Michalitsch, G. Kane Jennings, Seiichi Takami, Murray V. Baker, Paul E. Laibinis

   Pages 69-81

7. Morphology in Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy

   • Kris Varazo, Travis L. Wade, Billy H. Flowers Jr., Marcus D. Lay, Uwe Happek, John L. Stickney

   Pages 83-93

8. Overview on the Ultrathin Films Formation of II-VI Compound Semiconductors on Silver by Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy

   • M. Innocenti, G. Pezzatini, F. Loglio, M. L. Foresti

   Pages 95-112

9. Electrodeposition of Nanostructured Mesoporous Selenium Films

   • Iris Nandhakumar, Joanne M. Elliott, George S. Attard

   Pages 113-120

10. Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Branched Electrodeposits in Thin-Layer Cells

    • G. Marshall, F. V. Molina, G. A. González, S. Dengra, V. D’Angelo

    Pages 121-135

11. Self-Assembled Magnetic Nanoparticle Arrays by Anodization and Electrodeposition

    • Giovanni Zangari, Ming Sun, Robert M. Metzger

    Pages 137-156

12. Solution Chemical Routes to Two-Dimensional Bismuth Tellurides for Thermoelectric Applications

    • Z. Ding, L. Viculis, S. Cronin, T. Koga, M. Dresselhaus, S.-C. S.-C. Huang et al.

    Pages 157-169

13. Growth Kinetics of Multi-Layer CuEtX Films on Copper Piezoelectrodes

    • Maria Hepel, Mieczyslaw Scendo

    Pages 171-184

14. The Interfacial Chemistry of Grignard Reagent Formation: Reactions of Clean Mg(0001) Surfaces

    • Juan B. Abreu, Jean M. Sanabria-Chinchilla, Manuel P. Soriaga, John F. Garst, John L. Stickney

    Pages 185-196

15. Ultrathin Film Electrodeposition of Conjugated Polymers on Conducting Surfaces

    • Rigoberto C. Advincula, Chuanjun Xia, Seiji Inaoka, Daniel B. Roitman

    Pages 197-213

16. Self-Assembled Monolayers as Models for Polymeric Interfaces

    • C. C. Perry, S. R. Carlo, A. J. Wagner, C. Vecitis, J. Torres, K. Kolegraff et al.

    Pages 215-230

17. Structure and Electronic Properties of Self-Assembled Macrocycle and Polymer Multilayers

    • Lin Song Li, Alexander D. Q. Li

    Pages 231-243

18. Chemically-Attached Organic Monolayers on Silica Nanoparticles as an NMR Relaxation Medium for Embedded Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons

    • Edward W. Hagaman, A. C. Buchanan III, L. J. Koran

    Pages 245-251

19. Preparation of Thin-Film Alumina for Catalytic Activity Studies

    • Charles C. Chusuei, Xiaofeng Lai, Kai Luo, Qinlin Guo, D. Wayne Goodman

    Pages 253-264

20. EQCN Study of Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Methanol at Nanostructured Catalysts

    • Jin Luo, Yongbing Lou, Mathew M. Maye, Chuan-Jian Zhong, Maria Maria Hepel

    Pages 265-275

This book is about thin films; what they are, how they are prepared, how they are characterized, and what they are used for. The contents of this book not only showcase the diversity of thin films, but also reveals the commonality among the work performed in a variety of areas. The chapters in this volume are based on invited papers presented by prominent researchers in the field at a Symposium on "Thin Films: Preparation, Characterization, Applications" at the 221st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held in San Diego, California. The coverage of the symposium was extensive; topics ranged from highly-ordered metal adlayers on well-defined electrode surfaces to bio-organic films on non-metallic nanoparticles. An objective of this book is for the readers to be able to draw from the experience and results of others in order to improve and expand the understanding of the science and technology of their own thin films systems.

• AFM
• Compound
• Epitaxy
• REM
• STEM
• STM
• liquid
• morphology
• nanoparticle
• nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
• polymer
• spectroscopy

• Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  Manuel P. Soriaga, Youn-Geun Kim

• University of Georgia, Athens, USA

  John Stickney

• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

  Lawrence A. Bottomley

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