TY - JOUR A1 - Dietrich, Paul A1 - Graf, Nora A1 - Gross, Thomas A1 - Lippitz, Andreas A1 - Krakert, S. A1 - Schüpbach, B. A1 - Terfort, A. A1 - Unger, Wolfgang T1 - Amine species on self-assembled monolayers of omega-aminothiolates on gold as identified by XPS and NEXAFS spectroscopy JF - Surface and interface analysis N2 - Functionalised surfaces are of interest in many fields, e.g. in biomedicine, materials science and molecular electronics. In this study a series of self-assembled aliphatic and aromatic monolayers on gold substrates with terminal amino groups was investigated. Four different thiol molecules were used: aliphatic 11-aminoundecane-1-thiol (AUDT), aromatic 4-aminobenzenethiol (ABT) and aromatic ω-amino thiols with an alkyl spacer as 4-aminophenylbutane-1-thiol (APBT) and 3-(4''-amino-1,1':4',1''-terphenyl-4-yl)propane-1-thiol (ATPT). Evaluation of N 1s XPS data revealed that on the aromatic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) amino groups exist preferentially as primary amines, whereas on the aliphatic SAM protonated and/or hydrogen-bonded amines are the major species. This result is crosschecked by N K edge near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy and can be rationalised by the different basicity of aliphatic and aromatic amines. KW - Self-assembled monolayer KW - Amines KW - XPS KW - NEXAFS KW - Surface analysis PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/sia.3224 SN - 0142-2421 SN - 1096-9918 VL - 42 SP - 1184 EP - 1187 PB - Wiley CY - Chichester AN - OPUS4-21498 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -