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LANGMUIR
卷 37, 期 17, 页码 5139-5150出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00032
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- Chemistry Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
- College of Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
- Office of the Vice President for Research and Development at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
By using a controlled spreading rate, researchers were able to create Langmuir films of nanoparticles with more uniform, macroscale packing. Different compositions of water and glycerol led to various spreading rates and consequently different packing arrangements of the films.
We report on using a controlled spreading rate to create Langmuir films of nanoparticles with more uniform, macroscale packing. A dispersion of hydrophobic quantum dots in n-hexane was deposited on subphase solutions containing various compositions of water and glycerol. Fluorescence images were captured as the film spread radially. An average spreading rate was defined using film radius and time at maximum expansion. On water with the highest spreading rate, films have an open region surrounded by a coffee ring. At a well-defined slower spreading rate, a distinct inner compact region appears between the open film and coffee ring, now called an outer compact region. As the spreading rate decreases further, the relative position for the open film boundary moves inward while the relative areas for the inner and outer compact regions increase. Films are the smallest in size at the slowest spreading rate on glycerol. The patterns are button-like with a central depleted region (open film), compact inner and outer regions, and a less-dense outer edge region. Normalized radial profiles were used to generate a partition map for the relative radial positions marking each film region at different spreading rates. Area number densities were calculated in the highest-packed regions. The values give no conclusive evidence that nanoparticles stack as multilayers, even the most compactly covered regions. Films spreading on glycerol form the most uniform, circular-shaped, densely packed arrangement of nanoparticles as their final pattern.
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