Molecular Architecture: Construction of Self-Assembled Organophosphonate Duplexes and Their Electrochemical Characterization

作者：Cattani Scholz Anna; Liao Kung Ching; Bora Achyut; Pathak Anshuma; Hundschell Christian; Nickel Bert; Schwartz Jeffrey; Abstreiter Gerhard; Tornow Marc^*

来源：Langmuir, 2012, 28(20): 7889-7896.

DOI：10.1021/la301610a

Self-assembled monolayers of phosphonates (SAMPs) of 11-hydroxyundecylphosphonic acid, 2,6-diphosphonoanthracene, 9,10-diphenyl-2,6-diphosphonoanthracene, and 10,10'-diphosphono-9,9'-bianthracene and a novel self-assembled organophosphonate duplex ensemble were synthesized on nanometer-thick SiO2-coated, highly doped silicon electrodes. The duplex ensemble was synthesized by first treating the SAMP prepared from an aromatic diphosphonic acid to form a titanium complex-terminated one; this was followed by addition of a second equivalent of the aromatic diphosphonic acid. SAMP homogeneity, roughness, and thickness were evaluated by AFM; SAMP film thickness and the structural contributions of each unit in the duplex were measured by X-ray reflection (XRR). The duplex was compared with the aliphatic and aromatic monolayer SAMPs to determine the effect of stacking on electrochemical properties; these were measured by impedance spectroscopy using aqueous electrolytes in the frequency range 20 Hz to 100 kHz, and data were analyzed using resistance capacitance network based equivalent circuits. For the 11-hydroxyundecylphosphonate SAMP, C-SAMP = 2.6 +/- 0.2 mu F/cm(2), consistent with its measured layer thickness (ca. 1.1 nm). For the anthracene-based SAMPs, C-SAMP = 6-10 mu F/cm(2), which is attributed primarily to a higher effective dielectric constant for the aromatic moieties (epsilon = 5-10) compared to the aliphatic one; impedance spectroscopy measured the additional capacitance of the second aromatic monolayer in the duplex (2ndSAMP) to be C-Ti/2ndSAMP = 6.8 +/- 0.7 mu F/cm(2), in series with the first.

• 出版日期2012-5-22