Noncapillary-Wave Structure at the Water-Alkane Interface
| Autor: | Zhengqing Huang, Mark L. Schlossman, Aleksey M. Tikhonov, Dragoslav M. Mitrinovic, Ming Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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chemistry.chemical_classification Capillary wave Materials science Bremsstrahlung General Physics and Astronomy Synchrotron radiation chemistry.chemical_element Radius Gyration Synchrotron law.invention Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter chemistry law Chemical physics Physical chemistry Physics::Chemical Physics Carbon |
| Zdroj: | Physical Review Letters. 85:582-585 |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 0031-9007 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physrevlett.85.582 |
| Popis: | Synchrotron x-ray reflectivity is used to study the interface between bulk water and bulk n-alkanes with carbon numbers 6 through 10, 12, 16, and 22. For all interfaces, except the water-hexane interface, the interfacial width disagrees with the prediction from capillary-wave theory. The variation of interfacial width with carbon number can be described by combining the capillary-wave prediction for the width with a contribution from intrinsic structure. This intrinsic structure is determined by the gyration radius for the shorter alkanes and by the bulk correlation length for the longer alkanes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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