New Phenomena in Phase Transition and Accurate Determination of Orientational Order in Langmuir Monolayer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5223, Issue , 2003, Pages 177-186

  Rao, Yi ^a,b   Tao, Yi Song ^a,b   Zheng, De Sheng ^a,b   Wang, Hong Fei ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b NONE   (China)

Author keywords

8CB; Air Water Interface; Domain interaction; Langmuir Monolayer; Orientation Order; Orientational distribution; Orientational distribution narrowing; Phase Transition; Second Harmonic Generation

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HYDROPHILICITY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PH EFFECTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

8CB; AIR/WATER INTERFACES; DOMAIN INTERACTIONS; LANGMUIR MONOLAYERS; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION NARROWING; ORIENTATION ORDER; ORIENTATIONAL DISTRIBUTION;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 1842425632     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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