Gupta, V. K. and Kornfield, J. A. and Ferencz, A. and Wegner, G. (1994) Controlling Molecular Order in "Hairy-Rod" Langmuir-Blodgett Films: A Polarization-Modulation Microscopy Study. Science, 265 (5174). pp. 940-942. ISSN 0036-8075. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20141210-124151810
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Abstract
The interplay of molecular weight, layer thickness, and thermal annealing in controlling molecular order in ultrathin Langmuir-Blodgett films is characterized with the use of polarization-modulation laser-scanning microscopy. The degree and direction of molecular alignment can be imaged rapidly and sensitively through the magnitude and orientation of linear dichroism in Langmuir-Blodgett films of rodlike poly(phthalocyaninatosiloxane) (PcPS). Images are presented for films as thin as two molecular layers (∼44 angstroms). Molecular alignment along the transfer direction is much stronger for films of PcPS with ∼25 repeat units (∼10 nanometers long) than for those with ∼50 repeat units (∼20 nanometers long). Enhancement of alignment by thermal annealing is also much greater for PcPS-25 than PcPS-50. Intimate interaction with the substrate suppresses improvement in alignment by annealing, evident by an anomalously small increase in anisotropic absorption of the first two layers.
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Additional Information: | © 1994 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 27 April 1994; accepted 27 June 1994. Supported by Raychem and the Caltech Consortium in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering: E. I. duPont de Nemours, Eastman Kodak, and 3M. | ||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Controlling Molecular Order in "Hairy-Rod" Langmuir-Blodgett Films: A Polarization-Modulation Microscopy Study V. K. Gupta, J. A. Kornfield, A. Ferencz, and G. Wegner Science 12 August 1994: 265 (5174), 940-942. [DOI:10.1126/science.265.5174.940] | ||||||||||||
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