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AUTHOR
I.r. Peterson
Relationships between fatty acid monolayer structure on the subphase and on solid substrates
Abstract Docosanoic acid monolayers with known molecular packings on the water surface have been deposited on thin polymer films and then investigated using transmission electron diffraction at normal and tilted incidence. The diffraction patterns from monolayers deposited under all conditions investigated could be indexed as arising from the same conformationally disordered centred rectangular packing with molecules standing perpendicular to the substrate, although with a spread of unit cell parameters within and between each deposition condition significantly greater than the experimental error. This packing has been seen in monolayers on the water surface, but only under conditions compl…
Magnetic alignment of aliphatic lamellae
Abstract Magnetic alignment of mesophases is normally only considered possible when the molecule contains an aromatic ring system. In this paper we report on the mesomorphous behaviour of a polyalkylacrylate resin with average sidechain length 22 and the alignment of its lamellae in cast films by annealing in a strong magnetic field.
An investigation of the spot profiles in transmission electron diffraction from Langmuir-Blodgett films of aliphatic chain compounds
The profiles of the transmission diffraction spots from a Langmuir-Blodgett film of aliphatic chain compound are derived from three plausible models of molecular organisation : a polycrystalline phase with long-range orientational order; a paracrystal possessing a density of point defects which do not interrupt the lattice rows ; and a Nelson and Halperin hexatic smectic phase in the «Debye-Huckel» limit of weakly-interacting dislocations. The three resulting predictions are distinctly different. Experimental results are presented for the room-temperature diffraction patterns from Langmuir-Blodgett films of a lipid, DMPE, and the cadmium soap of a fatty acid, 22-tricosenoic. Only the Nelson…