Observation of van der Waals Driven Self‐Assembly of MoSI Nanowires into a Low‐Symmetry Structure Using Aberration‐Corrected Electron Microscopy

Thionin attached to a gold electrode modified with self-assembly of Mo6S9−I nanowires for amplified electrochemical detection of natural DNA

“…XPS analysis clearly shows that the sulfur groups in MoSI molecules with an electron binding energy of 162.3 eV and 163.5 eV corresponding to S2p 3/2 and S2p 1/2 signals (Nicolosi et al, 2007), overlay precisely with the characteristic binding energies of sulfur atoms bound to the gold surface (Laibinis et al, 1991;Tarlov et al, 1993). Thus, the immobilization of MoSI NWs on the AuE was validated.…”

Inorganic molecular wires: Physical and functional properties of transition metal chalco-halide polymers

“…HRTEM studies have been performed by Nicolosi et al [24] on Mo 6 S 4.5 I 4.5 and Mo 6 S 3 I 6 using advanced HRTEM techniques. Aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy, and in particular annular dark field (ADF) imaging was used to determine the structure of self-assembled nanowire crystals particularly of Mo 6 S 3 I 6 very accurately.…”

Processing and characterisation of Mo6S2I8nanowires

“…This fit is much better than the original one, suggesting that Mo 6 S 2 I 8 NWs, in contrast to Mo 6 S 3 I 6 and Mo 6 S 4.5 I 4.5 NWs, 5,6 do not debundle fully -the fit returns d 0 = 6.4 nm, while the diameter of individual NWs is about 1 nm. 22 This has important practical implications because while there are doubtless some individual NWs at lower concentrations, as shown in the histograms in the SI,w only a small fraction of these can ever be attained by dilution because the equilibrium bundle diameter is never below 6.4 nm.…”