title: Nano-scale characterization of binary self-assembled monolayers under an ambient condition with STM and TERS.
abstract: Gold surfaces were modified by benzyl-mercaptan (BM) and then partly replaced with benzenethiol (BT), which formed binary self-assembled monolayers (SAM). Initially BT randomly replaced BM in the monolayer, but at long exchange times >15 nm radius domains were observed with specific relative composition of BT and BM.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aramaki Aoba, Sendai 980-8578, Japan. fukumura@m.tohoku.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Noriko N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Horimoto
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tomizawa
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kajimoto
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukumura