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Published on: May 1, 2020
Structural organization and phase behaviour of meta-substituted dioctadecylaminobenzoquinones at the air/water
Shirin Behyan1, Dimitrios Gritzalis, Rolf Schmidt
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Centre for NanoScience Research, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montréal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada. christine.dewolf@concordia.ca.
Abstract:
The structural organization and phase behaviour of an amphiphilic zwitterionic quinonemonoimine at the air/water interface are presented. Brewster angle microscopy reveals multiple co-existing phases are observed over the entire isotherm while grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) shows that these comprise both tilted, untilted and multilayer structures with crystalline headgroups. Despite the heterogeneity, the phase transitions are highly reversible over multiple cycles.
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