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| Author(s): |
Cláudia Bonardi Kniphoff da Cruz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT) |
| Defense date: | 1995-10-19 |
| Examining board members: |
Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Junior;
Luiz Henrique Capparelli Mattoso;
Elisabeth Andreoli de Oliveira
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| Advisor: | Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Junior |
| Abstract | |
Old surface potential data in the literature were not reproducible, because of impurities in the aqueous subphase where the monolayers were formed. Recent data for stearic acid, however, show a reproducible behavior. In this work, a recharacterization of surface presssure (II) and surface potential (ΔV) for Langmuir monolayers of simple aliphatic compounds (alcohols, esters, acid and amine), fabricated over conveniently pure subphases, were successfully carried out. These new results show that the surface potential is zero for large areas per molecule and only increased below a critical area per molecule, Acr. Surface potential models for Langmuir films are in good agreement with the data obtained. There is almost no change in the surface pressure and surface potential for alcohols and esters for a subphase pH range of 1 to 13. However, for amine and acid large changes are observed, mainly in the surface potential curves, because of the electric double layer contribution Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films were deposited from stearic acid monolayers. They were characterized by surface potential measurements in order to confirm the importance of the contribution from dipole moments of the film-forming molecules. The results also point towards a negative contribution (around - 200 mV) due to the film/substrate interface. The surface potential technique has been demonstrated to be a very sensitive characterization technique for Langmuir monolayers as well as for LB films. (AU) | |