title: Chemical imaging of terrace-based active sites on gold.
abstract: Scanning tunneling microscopy data of a mixed monolayer comprised of a 40:60 ratio of H8Si8O12 and C6H13-H7Si8O12 clusters on gold are presented. The images display a composite monolayer surface with well-defined domain regions of the individual components. Holes present at face-centered cubic (fcc) sites of the starting Au/H7Si8O12 adsorbate layer indicate the location of active sites for impinging C6H13-H7Si8O12 clusters. Adsorption of a C6H13-H7Si8O12 cluster likely yields a mobile hydrogen atom available to recombine with and desorb an adjacent H8Si8O12 cluster. Hydrogen atom diffusion along substrate [121] directions is the proposed pattern formation mechanism of the mixed monolayer. Imaging of the spherosiloxane cluster domains identifies a novel terrace-based active site located in the fcc regions of the Au(111) 23 x square root3 surface reconstruction.
authors.affiliation: Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, USA.
authors.forename: Kevin S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Kenneth T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Nicholson
authors.forename: Bradford G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Orr
authors.forename: Mark M Banaszak
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Holl