Self‐Assembled Monolayers of Nitron: Self‐Activated and Chemically Addressable N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers with Triazolone Structural Motif

Chemically induced hairpin formation in DNA monolayers.

A naphthyridine dimer that binds specifically to G-G mismatches has been used to induce hairpin formation in oligonucleotides immobilized onto chemically modified gold surfaces. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging measurements of DNA microarrays were used to demonstrate that binding of the naphthyridine dimer to G-G mismatches within the stem portion of an immobilized 42-mer oligonucleotide...

Structural signatures of dynamic heterogeneities in monolayers of colloidal ellipsoids

When a liquid is supercooled towards the glass transition, its dynamics drastically slows down, whereas its static structure remains relatively unchanged. Finding a structural signature of the dynamic slowing down is a major challenge, yet it is often too subtle to be uncovered. Here we discover the structural signatures for both translational and rotational dynamics in monolayers of colloidal ...

Phospholipid Monolayers

Probing interaction forces in colloidal monolayers: Inversion of structural data

The knowledge of the potential between interacting colloidal particles is essential to describe and control the aggregation processes in which they are involved. However, interaction forces also bring out spatial ordering phenomena, which has been used to obtain helpful information on them in three-dimensional dispersions. In this paper we look into this possibility for colloidal monolayers spr...

Fluorinated Langmuir monolayers are more viscous than non-fluorinated monolayers.

The surface shear viscosity of the liquid expanded phase in Langmuir monolayers of fluorinated alcohols differs by orders of magnitude from the corresponding surface shear viscosity of Langmuir monolayers of their non-fluorinated counterparts. The line tension between the liquid expanded and the gaseous phase on the other hand is of similar magnitude for both fluorinated and non-fluorinated sur...