Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
The Journal of Chemical Physics
111 (1999), S. 5562-5567
ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Fatty acid Langmuir–Blodgett films, a quartz crystal microbalance, and Fourier-transform infrared dichroism have been used to study the evolution of the melting transition upon the variation of the sample thickness, from bulk to a few monolayers. Whereas ordinary bulk behavior was observed for samples all the way down to n=12 layers, a crossover range of 12≤n≤8 was identified to a continuous transition, characterized also by the existence of an intermediate orientationally ordered phase. Measurements on annealed samples indicated the strong sensitivity of such a phase and the order of the transition to defects and sample metastability. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.479815
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