The structure of ultrathin Langmuir-Blodgett films of cadmium behenate.

Evidence for magnetic ordering in ultrathin gadolinium Langmuir-Blodgett films

Stable ordering in Langmuir-Blodgett films.

Defects in the layering of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films can be eliminated by depositing from the appropriate monolayer phase at the air-water interface. LB films deposited from the hexagonal phase of cadmium arachidate (CdA2) at pH 7 spontaneously transform into the bulk soap structure, a centrosymmetric bilayer with an orthorhombic herringbone packing. A large wavelength folding mechanism acce...

Photoacoustic plasmon resonance spectra of Langmuir-Blodgett films

The surface plasmon spectra of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films have been investigated by combining photoacoustic technique with resonant attenuated total reflection spectroscopy. By this technique, the experimental PA angular spectra of cadmium stearate LB films have been obtained. According to the electromagnetic theory and considering the anisotropic properties of LB films, as well as based on t...

Interfacial behaviour of cubic silsesquioxane and silica nanoparticles in Langmuir and Langmuir–Blodgett films

In recent years fluorinated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) have been established as useful for the fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces, however little attention has been paid to their use for making ultrathin coatings by the Langmuir–Blodgett method. On the other hand, recently POSS compounds have been recognized as a new group of film-forming materials. In this study the int...

Waveguide evanescent field fluorescence microscopy: high contrast imaging of a domain forming mixed lipid Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer mimicking lung surfactant.

Waveguide evanescent field fluorescence (WEFF) microscopy is a new development that allows the imaging of contact regions between biological cells and their substratum, as well as imaging of ultrathin films such as monomolecular Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films. Mixed-lipid monolayer systems mimicking lung surfactant were fabricated on waveguides using the LB technique and imaged by both WEFF and s...