
Spontaneous desorption and phase transitions of self-assembled alkanethiol and alicyclic thiol monolayers chemisorbed on Au(1Â 1Â 1) in ultrahigh vacuum at room temperature
Keywords: Hexanethiol; Cyclohexanethiol; Self-assembled monolayers; Spontaneous desorption; Phase transitions; Scanning tunneling microscopy; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Thermal desorption spectroscopy;