Re-entrant Appearance of Phases in a Relaxed Langmuir Monolayer of Tetracosanoic Acid as Determined by X-Ray Scattering
Re-entrant Appearance of Phases in a Relaxed Langmuir Monolayer of Tetracosanoic Acid as Determined by X-Ray Scattering
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X 射线散射测定二十四烷酸松弛朗缪尔单层中相的重入外观
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1992
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P. Pershan
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D. K. Schwartz;M. Schlossman;P. Pershan
The structure of the fully relaxed phases of a Langmuir monolayer of tetracosanoic acid is determined by x‐ray diffraction and reflection along an isotherm at ∼20.5 °C. Isotherms taken by allowing the surface pressure to stabilize between incremental compressions are seen to be qualitatively different from the constant‐rate nonrelaxed isotherms typically seen in the literature. At low densities the monolayer consists of an inhomogeneous film of islands of a crystalline (or hexatic) phase with molecular tilt ordering that is analogous to that of the smectic I liquid crystal. Small amounts of impurities (∼0.5% of the monolayer) account for the change in surface pressure with area in this region. Upon compression to the point that the free space between islands becomes negligible the film appears homogeneous. On further compression the time required for full relaxation becomes long (i.e., ∼ hours), the tilt angle of the molecular axis decreases and the x‐ray unit cell is compressed. Including this homogeneou...