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Nanomechanical properties of reversed surfactant bilayers formed in micrometre-sized holes
Jian Jin1, Yukihiro Sugiyama, Keita Mitsui
1Organic Nanomaterials Center (ONC), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
Abstract:
Nanomechanical properties of free-standing reversed surfactant bilayers, dried foam films (DFFs), were examined via AFM by fitting local force-indentation curves with a Hertzian model. The Young's moduli of four kinds of bilayers were in a range of 10-30 MPa.

