Structure and shear response of lipid monolayers. Progress report, July 1, 1989--June 31, 1990

Technical Report · Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10148411· OSTI ID:10148411

Dutta, P; Ketterson, J B

Organic monolayers and multilayers are both scientifically fascinating and technologically promising; they are, however, both complex systems and relatively inaccessible to experimental probes. In this Progress Report, we describe our X-ray diffraction studies, which have given us substantial new information about the structures and phase transitions in monolayers on the surface of water; our use of these monolayers as a unique probe of the dynamics of wetting and spreading; and our studies of monolayer mechanical properties using a simple but effective technique available to anyone using the Wilhelmy method to measure surface tension.

• Research Organization: Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-84ER45125
• OSTI ID: 10148411
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/45125-7; ON: DE92013630
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Feb 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
LIPIDS
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
THIN FILMS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
PROGRESS REPORT
LAYERS
WATER
SURFACES
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
SURFACE TENSION
SHEAR
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NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS