dc.contributor.author | Hansen, Flemming Y. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Herwig, K. W. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Matthies, Blake E. (Blake Edward), 1968- | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Taub, Haskell | eng |
dc.date.issued | 1999 | eng |
dc.description | URL:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2362
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2362 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and neutron diffraction experiments have been performed on n-dotriacontane ( n-C32D66) monolayers adsorbed on a graphite basal- plane surface. The diffraction experiments show little change in the crystalline monolayer structure up to a temperature of ~350K above which a large thermal expansion and decrease in coherence length occurs. The MD simulations provide evidence that this behavior is due to a phase transition in the monolayer in which intramolecular and translational order are lost simultaneously. This melting transition is qualitatively similar to the gel-to-fluid transition found in bilayer lipid membranes. | eng |
dc.description.sponsorship | Acknowledgment is made to the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grants No. DMR-9314235 and No. DMR-9802476, the Missouri University Research Reactor, and to the donors of The Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the ACS, for partial support of this research. We thank L. Criswell for assistance with the figures. | eng |
dc.identifier.citation | Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2362-2365 (1999) | eng |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/8765 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | eng |
dc.relation.ispartof | Missouri Research Reactor publications (MU) | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. University of Missouri Research Reactor Center | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Molecular dynamics | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Neutrons -- Scattering | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Neutrons -- Diffraction | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Adsorption | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Monomolecular films | eng |
dc.title | Intramolecular and lattice melting in n-alkane monolayers : an analog of melting in lipid bilayers | eng |
dc.type | Article | eng |