. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: CrystEngComm. 2012 May 1;14(14):4557–4561. doi: 10.1039/C2CE25380A

Table 1.

Comparison of the time taken by L-arginine acetate in deionized water to completely crystallize on glass and Silver Island Films (SIFs) at room temperature and microwave heating (duty cycle = 1). Sample size is 20 microliters.

		Blank glass (no functional groups)	Blank SIFs (no functional groups)	MUDA_SIFs (–COOH groups)	HMA_SIFs (–NH₂ groups)	UDET_SIFs (–CH₃ groups)
Water contact angle		12 ± 0.1°	28 ± 1°	26 ± 3°	30 ± 5°	45 ± 3°
RT	Time	55 ± 5 min	11 ± 5 min	8 ± 1 min	6 ± 1 min	7 ± 1 min
	Size range	104–295 mm	285–505 mm	250–450 mm	850–1170 mm	125–383 mm
MW	Time	15 ± 3 min	8 ± 0.1 min	1 ± 0.1 min	2 ± 0.5 min	7 ± 1 min
	Size range	ND	380–550 mm	110–510 mm	344–530 mm	ND

ND - Not Determined