Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dzt6s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T01:45:58.697Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Organoclay Nanoplatelets at the Air/water Interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Yimin Zhang
Affiliation:
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-2275
Henry White
Affiliation:
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-2275
Miriam H. Rafailovich
Affiliation:
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-2275
Jonathan Sokolov
Affiliation:
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-2275
Dennis Peiffer
Affiliation:
Exxon-Mobil Research and Engineering Co., Annandale, NJ 08801
Get access

Abstract

We have demonstrated that films of single clay platelets can be produced by the Langmuir technique where a solution of organoclay particles dissolved in xylene was spread at the air water interface. The total thickness of the layer was found to be 21 ± 3Å which is in good agreement with previous X-ray diffraction data. Scanning probe microscopy showed the individual platelets to be rectangular in shape with an aspect ratio in excess of 100 to 1 and of uniform organic surfactant coverage.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1. Shi, H., Lan, T., and Pinnavaia, T. J., Chem. Mater. 8, 1584 (1996).Google Scholar
2. Hotta, Y., Taniguchi, M., Inukai, K., and Yamagishi, A. Langmuir 12, 5195 (1996).Google Scholar
3. Breen, C., Watson, R., Madejova, J., Komadel, P., and Klapyta, Z., Langmuir 13, 6473 (1997).Google Scholar
4. Tyan, H-L, Liu, Y-C, and Wei, K-H Chem. Mater. 11, 1942 (1999).Google Scholar
5. Zhulina, E., Singh, C., and Balazs, A., Langmuir 15, 3935 (1999).Google Scholar
6. Lee, J. W., Lim, Y. T., Park, O. O., Polymer Bulletin 45, 191 (2000).Google Scholar
7. Tamura, K., Setsuda, H., Taniguchi, M., and Yamagishi, A., Langmuir 15, 6915 (1999).Google Scholar
8. Kawasumi, M., Hasegawa, N., Kato, M., Usuki, A., and Okada, A., Macromolecules 30, 6333 (1997)Google Scholar
9.Nanotechnology Research Directions: IWGN Workshop Report, Chapter 6 –7, 1999.Google Scholar
10. Tateyama, H., Scales, P. J., Ooi, M., Nishimaura, S., Rees, K., and Healy, T. W., Langmuir 13, 2440 (1997)Google Scholar
11. Worrall, W. E., Ceramic Raw Materials, 2nd ed., (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1982)Google Scholar
12. Braslau, A., Pershan, P. S., Swislow, G., Ocko, B., and Als-Nielsen, J., Phys. Rev. A 38, 2457 (1988).Google Scholar
13. Kuhl, T. L. Majewski, J., Howes, P.B., Kjaer, K., Hahmen, A. von, Lee, K. Y. C., Ocko, B., Israelachvili, J. N., and Smith, G. S., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 7682 (1999)Google Scholar
14. Ulman, A. An Introduction to Ultrathin Organic Films from Langmuir-Blodgett to Self-Assembly (Academic Press, Boston, 1991).Google Scholar
15. Zhang, Y., Ph.D Thesis, SUNY at Stony Brook, 2000.Google Scholar