Grazing incidence diffraction and brewster-angle microscope studies of mixtures of hexadecanoic acid and methyl hexadecanoate: The unexpected appearance of a phase with nearest-neighbor tilt

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 104, Issue 43, 2000, Pages 10053-10058

  Teer, Ellis ^a   Knobler, Charles M ^a   Siegel, Stefan ^b   Vollhardt, Dieter ^b   Brezesinski, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; ORGANIC ACIDS; STABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

BREWSTER-ANGLE MICROSCOPY; GRAZING INCIDENCE DIFFRACTION; MESOPHASE; MOLE FRACTION;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 0034322625     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp002254c     Document Type: Article

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