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The aggregation structure of fatty acid monolayers on water subphases of different pH’s was investigated by means of transmission electron microscopy. Fatty acid monolayers exhibited the phase transition from an amorphous state to a crystalline one by surface compression in the case of a highly dissociated state of hydrophilic groups, whereas they did not show the phase transition in the case of a slightly dissociated state. The aggregation structure of monolayers on the water surface was systematically classified into “the crystalline monolayer”, “the amorphous monolayer” and “the compressing crystallized monolayer” with respect to thermal and chemical (intermolecular repulsive) factors.
Molecular-resolution images of fatty acid molecules in the monolayers on mica substrate were successfully observed with an atomic force microscope (AFM) for the first time. The AFM image of a lignoceric acid monolayer prepared at a surface pressure of 5mNm−1 showed a two-dimensional periodic structure with locally disordered molecular arrangements. Also, the nondestructive AFM image observation was successful for a stearic acid monolayer which was prepared by a multistep creep method, indicating that a high mechanical stability of the monolayer is inevitably required for the nondestructive AFM observation.
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Kajiyama, T., Kuri, T. Novel concept for the aggregation structure of fatty acid monolayers on the water surface and direct observation of molecular arrangements in their monolayers. Bull. Mater. Sci. 18, 375–384 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02749768
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