Structure of a langmuir film on a liquid metal surface

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5597, 2002, Pages 1404-1407

  Kraack, H ^a   Ocko, B M ^a   Pershan, P S ^a   Sloutskin, E ^a   Deutsch, M ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ANGSTROM RESOLUTION;

LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS;

DIMER; MERCURY; METAL; STEARIC ACID;

LIQUID; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FILM; LIQUID; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0037112259     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078372     Document Type: Article

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43. Support to P.S.P. by the U.S. Department of Energy (grant DE-FG02-88-ER4S379) and the National Science Foundation (grant DMR-01-124936) and to M.D. by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Jerusalem, is gratefully acknowledged. We thank D. Vaknin (Ames) for generous advice and drawings of the trough, and Y. Rabin and I. Kanter for a critical reading of the manuscript. Brookhaven National Laboratory is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (contract DE-AC02-98CH10886).