Abstract
The adsorption of chiral molecules was recently shown to trigger a change in the magnetisation of mesoscopic magnetic domains in a ferromagnetic underlayer. In this work, we investigated the macroscopic (magneto-)optical response of chemisorbed α-helical polyalanine self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on a gold and gold-capped-cobalt thin film on Au substrates using spectroscopic ellipsometry and magneto-optical Kerr effect spectroscopy and microscopy. The optical and magneto-optical spectra reveal selective chemisorption of the α-helical polyalanine molecules depending on the orientation of the substrate remanent magnetisation during the SAMs process. Moreover, a sign change of the magneto-optical response was observed in some of the magnetic substrates after the chiral SAMs formation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 11822-11829 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Materials Chemistry C |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 34 |
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| State | Published - 14 Sep 2020 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry