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Structure and optical properties of a monolayer single crystal of a cyanine dye
Helmuth MöhwaldStefan Kirsteinsubject
genetic structuresChemistryStereochemistryGeneral Physics and AstronomyEpitaxychemistry.chemical_compoundCrystallographyElectron diffractionPulmonary surfactantMonolayerMoleculePhysical and Theoretical ChemistryCyanineSpectroscopySingle crystaldescription
Abstract Molecularly thin single crystals of a cyanine dye prepared by adsorption at a charged surfactant monolayer are studied by polarized optical spectroscopy and electron diffraction. Both techniques independently show a herringbone arrangement of the dye with the long axes of translationally inequivalent molecules forming an angle of 80°. The dye arranges in a primitive rectangular unit cell (a=21.2 A, b=6.14 A) adjacent to an epitaxially related hexagonal cell of the aliphatic tails of the surfactant.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-02-01 | Chemical Physics Letters |