C. Caneto et al., INTERACTIONS OF METAL-IONS WITH MONOLAYERS AND WITH LANGMUIR-BLODGETT-FILMS, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. D, Condensed matter,atomic, molecular and chemical physics, biophysics, 16(9), 1994, pp. 1579-1584
Oriented systems such as monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers
constitute supramolecular structures appropriate for ion detection. In
fact, they are sensitive to small quantities of ions since they have
specifically oriented ligand head groups that can easily combine with
the ions to be detected in solution. We investigated monolayers of dio
ctadecyldithiocarbamate (DODTC) specifically synthesized and we studie
d the interactions of the monolayers with transition metal ions such a
s Ni2+ dissolved in the subphase. The spreading isotherms, the surface
potential-area isotherms and the spectroscopic measurements (UV-Vis a
bsorption and ESCA spectroscopy) show that the metal ions can combine
with the DODTC monolayers. The present findings show that it is possib
le to employ these systems to build chemical sensors for transition me
tal ions.