Effect of Humidity and Hydrophobicity on the Tribological Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left"> </td><td align="center">Contact angle (°) </td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Bare gold surface</td><td align="center">72</td></tr><tr><td align="left">1-octadecanethiol (ODT)</td><td align="center">102</td></tr><tr><td align="left">16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHA)</td><td align="center">42</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Contact angles of water on different surfaces.

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Table 1: Effect of Humidity and Hydrophobicity on the Tribological Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers 