Face‐Selective Nucleation of Calcite on Self‐Assembled Monolayers of Alkanethiols: Effect of the Parity of the Alkyl Chain

Abstract

In-line for promotion: A study of self-assembled monolayers of sulfanylalkanoic acids containing odd and even numbers of methylene groups supported on gold and silver has demonstrated that the crystallographic direction of nucleated calcite crystals is controlled by the orientation of the functional groups in the templating surface (see picture).