Self-assembled monolayers and titanium dioxide: From surface patterning to potential applications

• Yaron Paz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 845–861, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.94

• TiO2 is described. Photocatalytic phenomena that are of specific relevance to SAMs, such as remote degradation, and cases where SAMs were used to study photocatalytic phenomena, are discussed as well. Mastering of micro-patterning is a key issue en route to a successful assimilation of a variety of

• areas of photovoltaics, microelectronics, microelectromechanics, photocatalysis, corrosion prevention and even biomedicine should be regarded as appetizers paving the way for further studies to be performed. Keywords: photocatalysis; remote degradation; self-assembled monolayers; titanium dioxide

• utilized to study the so-called “remote degradation” effect, namely the ability to photocatalytically decompose molecules that are located away from the TiO2 surface. Here, a cross-linked SAM of OTS was chemisorbed on well-defined structures comprising alternating microstripes of titania and oxidized