Abstract
Clear evidence for hexagonal crystallinity in surfactant-templated silicate films growing at the air-water interface is presented for the first time. Grazing incidence synchrotron radiation diffraction shows the development of diffraction spots just as the `induction phase', identified previously, is completed. The observed hexagonal diffraction represents the in-plane ordering of the first two-three layers of film formed at the interface.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2540-2542 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Langmuir |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 30 Mar 1999 |