Ballistic Ejection of Microdroplets from Overpacked Interfacial Assemblies

Surfactant-mediated formation of polymeric microlenses from interfacial microdroplets.

Nano- and micro-scale lenses have a range of potential applications, such as in antireflective layers in photovoltaic or light emission devices, and in super resolution imaging in the near field modes. One of the protocols to mass produce polymeric microlenses is through the polymerization of microdroplets of a monomer precursor that are produced at solid–liquid interfaces by a solvent exchange...

Thermal interfacial transport in the presence of ballistic heat modes

Interfacial charge-transfer absorption: 3. Application to semiconductor-molecule assemblies.

Interfacial charge-transfer absorption (IFCTA) provides information concerning the barriers to charge transfer between molecules and the energy levels of a metal/semiconductor and the magnitude of the electronic coupling and could thus provide a powerful tool for understanding interfacial charge-transfer kinetics. Here we utilize a previously published model (J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 10251) ...

Interfacial Fermi loops from interfacial symmetries.

We propose a concept of interfacial symmetries such as interfacial particle-hole symmetry and interfacial time-reversal symmetry, which appear in interfaces between two regions related to each other by particle-hole or time-reversal transformations. These symmetries result in novel dispersion of interface states. In particular, for the interfacial particle-hole symmetry, the gap closes along a ...

Interfacial assemblies of atypical amphiphilic porphyrins: hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity of substituents, annealing effects, and supramolecular chirality.

Interfacial molecular assemblies of eight atypical amphiphilic porphyrins, substituted with hydrophobic or hydrophilic substituents but without long alkyl chains on their molecular skeletons, have been investigated in terms of supramolecular chiralty generation and amplification. It is found that all of the originally organized interfacial molecular assemblies display very weak or undetectable ...