id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt vx021c20z0m Natalie A Kautz Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of reactive gas-phase interactions with alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers 2010 .txt text/plain 405 15 34 Molecules positioned along surface defects (domain boundaries, gold-terrace step edges) are preferentially removed before molecules located in close-packed areas. While the overall net reaction is to remove the octanethiol SAM, molecules remaining on the gold surface undergo significant rearrangement: domain boundaries anneal into close-packed areas, film defects diffuse to monolayer edges, and molecules located along the edge of close-packed features reorganize and change the shape of the remaining monolayer. cache/vx021c20z0m.txt txt/vx021c20z0m.txt