One of the important venues in designing novel surfaces, interfaces and materials is based on the complementary functionalization of surfaces, modified molecules, and nanostructures, so that combining them would lead to structures with novel chemical and physical properties. The presentation will highlight the molecular-level view of surface reactions starting with investigation of the chemistry of functional organic layers with buckyballs and carbon nanotubes, then expand this work to the surfaces directly functionalized with ammonia and azides, and finally examining the role of surface functionalization in building multilayered nanostructures based on similar chemical attachment schemes. We will use experimental and computational description of molecular processes to understand the rules governing attachment schemes. A combination of microscopic techniques to visualize the resulting surfaces and interfaces with the spectroscopic identification of the produced linkers and with the computational description of the spectroscopic observables will allow for a complete characterization of the systems produced.

Molecular design and chemical modification of semiconductor surfaces

255th National Meeting (2018)

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