Water interacting with self-assembled monolayers

/images/sam1.jpg — Effects of water on SAM coatings with various sized regions of damage.

/images/sam2.jpg — Only the water shown during penetration of the damaged SAM.

/images/sam3.jpg — Water in nanoconfinement between two planar SAMs.

Work by Matt Lane, Gary Grest, Mike Chandross, and Mark Stevens (all at Sandia) and Chris Lorenz (King’s College, London). They studied the interaction of water with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). Investigations included water penetration of damaged SAMs and water diffusion properties in nanoconfinement.

Related publications

Water in Nanoconfinement between Hydrophilic Self-Assembled Monolayers, J. M. D. Lane, M. Chandross, M. J. Stevens, and G. S. Grest, Langmuir 24, 5209 (2008). doi:10.1021/la704005v
Water Penetration of Damaged Self-Assembled Monolayers, J. M. D. Lane, M. Chandross, C. D. Lorenz, M. J. Stevens, and G. S. Grest, Langmuir 24, 5734 (2008). doi:10.1021/la703492j