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dc.contributor.authorHansen, Flemming Y.eng
dc.contributor.authorHerwig, K. W.eng
dc.contributor.authorMatthies, Blake E. (Blake Edward), 1968-eng
dc.contributor.authorTaub, Haskelleng
dc.date.issued1999eng
dc.descriptionURL:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2362 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2362eng
dc.description.abstractMolecular 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.sponsorshipAcknowledgment 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.citationPhys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2362-2365 (1999)eng
dc.identifier.issn0031-9007eng
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10355/8765eng
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Societyeng
dc.relation.ispartofMissouri Research Reactor publications (MU)eng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri--Columbia. University of Missouri Research Reactor Centereng
dc.subject.lcshMolecular dynamicseng
dc.subject.lcshNeutrons -- Scatteringeng
dc.subject.lcshNeutrons -- Diffractioneng
dc.subject.lcshAdsorptioneng
dc.subject.lcshMonomolecular filmseng
dc.titleIntramolecular and lattice melting in n-alkane monolayers : an analog of melting in lipid bilayerseng
dc.typeArticleeng


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