Self-Healing of Surfactant Surface Micelles on Millisecond Time Scales

We study the dynamics of surfactant micelles at the solid−liquid interface using a new atomic force-microscopic imaging mode to visualize the nanometer-level structural features of the micelles and the picometer-level lattice of the substrate simultaneously. We find that defects created in a crystal...

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Published inJournal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 128; no. 38; pp. 12378 - 12379
Main Authors Schniepp, Hannes C, Saville, Dudley A, Aksay, Ilhan A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Chemical Society 27.09.2006
Subjects
Chemistry
Exact sciences and technology
General and physical chemistry
Micelle
Surfactant
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Summary:We study the dynamics of surfactant micelles at the solid−liquid interface using a new atomic force-microscopic imaging mode to visualize the nanometer-level structural features of the micelles and the picometer-level lattice of the substrate simultaneously. We find that defects created in a crystalline micellar array by the scanning probe tip self-heal flawlessly in less than 6 ms.
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ISSN:0002-7863
1520-5126
DOI:10.1021/ja0624826