The properties of soft-matter thin films (e.g. liquid films, polymer coatings, Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers) nowadays play an important role in materials science. They are also very exciting with respect to fundamental questions: In thin films, liquids and polymers may be considered as trapped in a quasi-two-dimensional geometry. This confined geometry is expected to alter the properties and structures of these materials considerably. This volume is dedicated to the scattering of x-rays by soft-matter interfaces. X-ray scattering under grazing angles is the only tool to investigating these materials on atomic and mesoscopic length scales. A review of the field is presented with many examples.

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materials science
polymer
scattering
surface
thin films

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"The book is well referenced and clearly conveys materials systems and behavior that are amenable to characterization by thin-film scattering techniques. It should be an asset to any research group beginning, or currently involved in, the characterization of thin films by x-ray diffraction."
Physics Today, 2000/2

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Book Title: X-Ray Scattering from Soft-Matter Thin Films
Book Subtitle: Materials Science and Basic Research
Authors: Metin Tolan
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0112834
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-14218-9Published: 03 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49525-3Published: 03 December 2007
Series ISSN: 0081-3869
Series E-ISSN: 1615-0430
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 198
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Film, Soft and Granular Matter, Condensed Matter Physics, Spectroscopy

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