Structure and phase transitions of monolayers of intermediate-length n -alkanes on graphite studied by neutron diffraction and molecular dynamics simulation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Diama, A ^a,b   Matthies, B ^a,c   Herwig, K W ^a,d   Hansen, F Y ^a,e   Criswell, L ^a   Mo, H ^a,f   Bai, M ^a   Taub, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^c GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f Advanced Optowave Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

[110] DIRECTION; ALKANE CHAINS; BASAL PLANES; FLUID-PHASE; GAUCHE DEFECTS; GRAPHITE SURFACES; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; LONG AXIS; MD SIMULATION; MELTING TRANSITIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MONOLAYER FILM; N-ALKANES; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION MEASUREMENTS; PLANE SURFACES; RC STRUCTURE; ROW SPACING; SMECTIC PHASE; SUB-LATTICES; TETRACOSANE; TRANS CONFORMATIONS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GRAPHITE; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; MONOLAYERS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PARAFFINS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 69549112663     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3212095     Document Type: Article

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