Structural Reorganization in Collapsed Langmuir Monolayers
Arachidic acid monolayers formed on an aqueous solution of cerium nitrate have been studied by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. Despite compression beyond the collapse point, the monolayer unexpectedly retains its translational order and develops corrugation. This paper presents a method for simulating the two-dimensional diffraction patterns characteristic of monolayers with perturbed orientational order. The unusual diffraction data obtained from corrugated monolayers during synchrotron experiments are described using this approach.
Authors
- K. V. Nikolaev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4752-9599)
- S. N. Yakunin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6689-878X)
- Б. И. Островский (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3359-754X)
- Н. Н. Новикова (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1320-0792)
- A. V. Rogachev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6026-1534)
- L. R. Muftakhova
Institutions
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (RU)
- Kurchatov Institute (RU)
- Osipyan Institute of Solid State Physics RAS (RU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1134/s1547477125701201
- Primary Topic
- Theoretical and Computational Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00