Sacchi Marco, Wales David J, Jenkins Stephen J
Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK.
Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2017 Jun 28;19(25):16600-16605. doi: 10.1039/c7cp02716h.
Amino acids adsorbed on single-crystal metal surfaces have emerged as prototypical systems for exploring the properties that govern the development of long-range chirality in self-assembled monolayers (SAM) and supramolecular 2D networks. In this study, we characterise the self-assembly mechanism for glycine on the Cu(110) surface. This process occurs on a time scale that is too fast for most atomically resolved microscopic techniques, so the mechanism we propose here provides new insight for an important unexplored surface phenomenon.
吸附在单晶金属表面的氨基酸已成为探索自组装单分子层（SAM）和超分子二维网络中长程手性发展相关性质的典型体系。在本研究中，我们表征了甘氨酸在Cu(110)表面的自组装机制。这个过程发生的时间尺度对于大多数原子分辨显微镜技术来说太快了，所以我们在此提出的机制为一个重要的未被探索的表面现象提供了新的见解。
