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Self-healing of surfactant surface micelles on millisecond time scales
Hannes C Schniepp1, Dudley A Saville, Ilhan A Aksay
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|September 21, 2006
Abstract:
We study the dynamics of surfactant micelles at the solid-liquid interface using a new atomic force-microscopic imaging mode to visualize the nanometer-level structural features of the micelles and the picometer-level lattice of the substrate simultaneously. We find that defects created in a crystalline micellar array by the scanning probe tip self-heal flawlessly in less than 6 ms.

