https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Enantiospecific adsorption and decomposition of cysteine enantiomers on the chiral cu{421}R surface https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:37110 R surface. Although very little difference was observed in the molecular orientation of the two enantiomers as observed with near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure, a large variation in the sulfur bond scission energy was measured using a high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy thermal annealing sequence. As a result of this scission process, enantiomers of cysteine molecules completely dissociate into alaninate at temperatures separated by as much as 16 K or 0.06 eV which is one of the largest stereo effects observed on chiral metal surfaces.]]> Tue 18 Aug 2020 13:18:42 AEST ]]> Adsorption and orientation kinetics of self-assembled films of octadecyltrimethoxysilane on aluminium oxide surfaces https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:590 Thu 25 Jul 2013 09:10:38 AEST ]]> Measuring the tilt angle of ODTMS self-assembled monolayers on Al oxide surfaces https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:578 Thu 25 Jul 2013 09:10:29 AEST ]]> Measurement of molecular order and orientation in nanoscale organic films https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:611 Thu 25 Jul 2013 09:10:24 AEST ]]> A quantitative study of PCBM diffusion during annealing of P3HT: PCBM blend films https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:7933 Sat 24 Mar 2018 10:47:57 AEDT ]]> Role of solvent trapping effects in determining the structure and morphology of ternary blend organic devices https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:6934 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:38:15 AEDT ]]> Evolution of laterally phase-separated polyfluorene blend morphology studied by X-ray spectromicroscopy https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:6938 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:38:13 AEDT ]]> X-ray spectromicroscopy of polymer/ fullerene composites: quantitative chemical mapping https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:994 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:29:51 AEDT ]]> Nanoscale quantitative chemical mapping of conjugated polymer blends https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:1179 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:28:29 AEDT ]]> Vertical stratification and interfacial structure in P3HT: PCBM organic solar cells https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:10424 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:12:37 AEDT ]]> Highly resilient field emission from aligned single-walled carbon nanotube arrays chemically attached to n-type silicon https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:5265 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:46:34 AEDT ]]> Towards fabrication of synthetic metal nanowires https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:113 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:43:15 AEDT ]]> X-ray microscopy of photovoltaic polyfluorene blends: relating nanomorphology to device performance https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:3195 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:21:55 AEDT ]]> Investigating the enantioselectivity of alanine on a chiral Cu{421}R surface https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:22267 R surface. Very little enantioselectivity was observed in the HR-XPS thermal desorption; however, there was a large difference in the dissociation products left on the surface between the two enantiomers. NEXAFS spectroscopy also exhibited only minor differences in the molecular adsorption of the two enantiomer layers; however, low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) images revealed significant differences in the structure of the adsorbed layers. d-alanine forms a p(2 × 3) overlayer while l-alanine forms a combination of p(1 × 2) overlayer and faceted steps oriented in the [−110] direction. Intermolecular bonding and steric effects play a significant role in these stereoselective differences by maximizing the hydrogen bonding between the molecules. This study clearly shows that single chiral tests are not adequate to ascertain the true enantioselective properties of the given system.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:17:41 AEDT ]]> Single crystal X-ray, AFM, NEXAFS, and OFET studies on angular polycyclic aromatic silyl-capped 7,14-bis(ethynyl)dibenzo b,def chrysenes https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:22082 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:15:16 AEDT ]]> Manipulating the orientation of an organic adsorbate on silicon: a NEXAFS study of acetophenone on Si(001) https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23892 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:13:39 AEDT ]]> A multilayered approach to polyfluorene water-based organic photovoltaics https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23616 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:13:27 AEDT ]]> Unravelling donor-acceptor film morphology formation for environmentally-friendly OPV ink formulations https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:46422 rational choice of solvent approach as opposed to the usual trial-and-error methods. We demonstrate here that we can achieve a bicontinuous interpenetrating network with nanoscale phase separation for the chosen donor–acceptor material system poly[2,3-bis-(3-octyloxyphenyl)quinoxaline-5,8-diyl-alt-thiophene-2,5-diyl]:phenyl-C61 butyric acid methyl ester (TQ1:PC61BM) when processing from green solvent ink formulations. This structure is achieved by first calculating the Hansen solubility parameters (HSP) of the donor and acceptor materials, followed by careful choice of solvents with selective relative solubilities for the two materials based on the desired order of precipitation necessary for forming a nanostructured interdigitated network morphology. We found that the relative distances in Hansen space (Ra) between TQ1 and the primary solvent, on the one hand, and PC61BM and the primary solvent, on the other hand, could be correlated to the donor–acceptor morphology for the formulations based on the solvents d-limonene, anisole, and 2-methyl anisole, as well as the halogenated reference solvent o-dichlorobenzene. This nanostructured blend film morphology was characterised with scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and the film surface composition was analysed by near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy. Hansen solubility theory, based on solution thermodynamics, has been used and we propose an HSP-based method that is a general platform for the rational design of ink formulations for solution-based organic electronics, in particular facilitating the green solvent transition of organic photovoltaics. Our results show that the bulk heterojunction morphology for a donor–acceptor system processed from customised solvent mixtures can be predicted by the HSP-based method with good reliability.]]> Mon 29 Jan 2024 18:05:22 AEDT ]]> Adsorption differences between low coverage enantiomers of alanine on the chiral Cu{421}(R) surface https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:34701 Mon 15 Apr 2019 09:12:07 AEST ]]>