Coating of Conducting and Insulating Threads with Porous MOF Particles through Langmuir-Blodgett Technique

Langmuir-Blodgett nanorod assembly.

Techniques for directing the assembly of metal or semiconductor quantum dots into novel superstructures have been extensively pursued over the past decades.1-3 Recent interest has been drawn toward 1-dimensional nanoscale building blocks such as nanotubes, nanowires, and nanorods.4-14 If these one-dimensional nanoscale building blocks can be ordered and rationally assembled into appropriate 2-d...

Langmuir-Blodgett films of polyethylene

Photosystem I in Langmuir-Blodgett and Langmuir-Schaefer monolayers.

Photosystem I (PSI) is a membrane protein complex that generates photoinduced electrons and transfers them across the thylakoid membrane during photosynthesis. The PSI complex, separated from spinach leaves, was spread onto the air-water interface as a monolayer and transferred onto a gold electrode surface that was precoated with a self-assembled monolayer (SAM). The electrochemical properties...

Spectroscopic properties of conducting TCNQ Langmuir-Blodgett films obtained via a homodoping process

We report the preparation and the spectroscopic properties of Langmuir-Blodgett films obtained by mixing in the same monolayer a polar amphiphilic octadecyl tetracyanoquinodimethane (Cj~TCNQ) and an ionic semi-amphiphilic (Cj~s~dithiolium-TCNQ compound. A cluster approach is used for the interpretation of the electronic charge transfer band and of the vibronic features in infrared as a result o...

Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Supported Polyester Dendrimers

Amphiphiles with a dendritic structure are attractive materials as they combine the features of dendrimers with the self-assembling properties and interfacial behavior of water-air affinities. We have synthesized three generations of polyester dendrimers and studied their interfacial properties on the Langmuir films. The behavior obtained was, as a rule, the lowest generation dendrimers behavin...