Molecules Adopting an Inverted U-Shape on the Water Surface by Self-Assembling into Crystalline Monolayers
作者:Isabelle Weissbuch、Meir Lahav、Leslie Leiserowitz、Kay Lederer、Adelheid Godt、Gerhard Wegner、Paul B. Howes、Kristian Kjaer、Jens Als-Nielsen
DOI:10.1021/jp9819745
日期:1998.8.1
Model molecules, designed to simulate a chain fold, self-assemble into crystalline monolayers at the air-water interface, the structure of which has been determined, in situ, by synchrotron grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction. The two-dimensional packing arrangement in such monolayers is consistent with a structure composed of ribbons containing translationally related molecules adopting an inverted U-shape. The distance between these molecules along the ribbon is optimum for creating an additional chain fold, leading to the possibility that a polymeric molecule will undulate on the water surface.