C O M M U N I C A T I O N S
Research (NYSTAR) for financial support for M.L.S. and the shared
instrument facility.
Note Added after ASAP Publication: In the version published
on the Web November 2, 2004, there were errors in the caption
for Figure 4. The caption to Figure 4 is correct in the final Web
version published on November 10, 2004, and in the print version.
Supporting Information Available: Synthetic details and char-
acterization of 1-5. Experimental details for the synchrotron X-ray
reflectivity, XPS, RAIRS measurements, and the device preparation/
characterization.
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Acknowledgment. We acknowledge primary financial support
from the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Initiative of the
National Science Foundation under NSF Award Number CHE-
0117752 and by the New York State Office of Science, Technology,
and Academic Research (NYSTAR). We thank T. Graham and
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Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886.
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Program (2004). We thank the MRSEC Program of the National
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