Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 33, Issue 17, Pages 4280-4290Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00613
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- UNEDs Researchers Formation Program
- MINECO [FIS2013-47350-C5-5-R, FIS2012-38231-C02-01, FIS2014-62005-EXP]
- E.U. through ITN Cowet
- UNEDs Researchers Formation Program
- MINECO [FIS2013-47350-C5-5-R, FIS2012-38231-C02-01, FIS2014-62005-EXP]
- E.U. through ITN Cowet
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Langmuir monolayers of fatty acids and alcohols are two-dimensional systems with a rich equilibrium phase diagram. We have explored the temperature and surface-pressure-dependent shear response of monolayers formed by fatty acids of different chain lengths and a fatty alcohol. This has been accomplished with an interfacial shear rheometer utilizing magnetic tweezers and equipped with a refined temperature control and acquisition system. Our rheological results have allowed us to draw a phase diagram from the viscoelastic properties of these 2-D systems and show new phenomena that strongly depend on temperature: the existence of a maximum in viscosity at the L2' phase, the behavior of the elastic modulus to the storage modulus ratio at the L2 phase, and the increase or decrease in viscosity at the L2-LS phase transition. In addition, we unambiguously show that the LS phase displays a counterintuitive behavior in which the loss modulus increases with temperature. We demonstrate, through isothermal surface pressure sweeps and isobaric temperature sweeps, that the exponential dependence of the loss modulus on temperature at the LS phase appears for all hydrophobic tail lengths studied and for both acid and alcohol head groups.
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