Table 1.

Summary of common experimental methods used to assess patterned SAM organization on NPs

Direct techniques	Microscopy	AFM,a STM,b BF-TEMc
	Scattering	SANSd
	Spectroscopy	IRRASe
Indirect techniques	Spectroscopy	NMR,f SERS,g ESR,h IRi
	Mass spectrometry	MALDI,j IM-MSk

^aKuna et al. (2009); ^bBiscarini et al. (2013), Centrone et al. (2007), Jackson et al. (2006), Moglianetti et al. (2014), and Ong et al. (2013, 2014); ^cPercebom et al. (2016); ^dMoglianetti et al. (2014); ^eBourone et al. (2016), Sarangi and Patnaik (2014), ^fGuarino et al. (2012), Liu et al. (2012), Pradhan et al. (2009), and Şologan et al. (2016b); ^gStewart et al. (2012); ^hGentilini et al. (2009), Lucarini and Pasquato (2010), and Posocco et al. (2012); ⁱCentrone et al. (2007), ^jFarrell et al. (2015), and Harkness et al. (2010); ^kHarkness et al. (2011)