Grazing-incidence x-ray diffraction study of Langmuir films of amphiphilic monodendrons

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2003 Feb;67(2 Pt 1):021601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.021601. Epub 2003 Feb 12.

Abstract

We have used pressure-area isotherms and grazing-incidence x-ray diffraction to study structures of Langmuir films of first-generation monodendrons with two or three peripheral alkyl chains. Unlike the structures observed in their bulk liquid crystalline mesophases, these multichain monodendrons form either a centered rectangular lattice with molecular axes tilted toward nearest neighbors or an oblique lattice with molecular axes tilted in low-symmetry directions.