
%0 Journal Article
%A Baker, MV 
%A Landau, J 
%T Self Assembled Alkanethiolate Monolayers as Thin Insulating Films
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1995/06/01
%V 48
%N 6
%P 1201-1211
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9951201
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9951201 
%X Simple devices that contain alkanethiolate monolayers sandwiched between conducting films were prepared by fixing a gold film to the surface of an alkanethiolate monolayer (on a gold substrate) with silver paint. These devices, and similar devices that did not contain alkanethiolate monolayers, were tested as resistors in d.c . circuits. The devices that contained octadecanethiolate monolayers had resistances of approximately 1012 &#937;, 10 orders of magnitude higher than the resistance of devices that contained no monolayers. Sulfur- terminated alkanethiolate monolayers were prepared by treatment of carboxylic acid-terminated monolayers with vapours of thionyl chloride followed by vapours of hexane-1,6-dithiol. Attempts to use the sulfur-containing groups at the surface of this monolayer as 'molecular glue' to attach a flexible gold film to the surface of the monolayer were unsuccessful. 
