American Chemical Society, Langmuir, 14(21), p. 6142-6144, 2005
DOI: 10.1021/la050051f
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Thiolated self-assembled monolayers of carbohydrates may serve as useful polyvalent tools to mimic the organized presentation of such molecules at the cell surface. SAMs presenting the disaccharide maltose as a neoglycoconjugate were produced, and the structure was studied by high resolution atomic force microscopy. The molecules form highly ordered structures on a gold (111) surface, with lattice parameters determined by the linker moiety rather than the headgroup.