Disordered surface layer

As an ex situ technique for structural information on surfaces, STM is an excellent complement to the standard electron and ion diffraction probes of surface order. The STM method can identify both short range order and long range periodicity, as well as disordered surface layers (e.g., images of sorbic acid on Highly Ordered Pyrolitic Graphite (HOPG), vida infra). In contrast,... 

Parsegian, V. A. Forces between lecithin bimolecular leaflets are due to a disordered surface layer. Science 156, 939-942 (1967). 

Figure 5-21. Some possible lattice defects with chain folding. 1, Chain ends 2, disordered surface layer 3, dislocations 4, interlamellar linkages.

Flgiin 5-18. Some possible lalliee defects with chain folding. I Chain ends 2 disordered surface layer . 1 dislocations, 4 inlerlamellar linkages. 

P. Sheng, B-Z. Li, M. Zhou, T. Moses, and Y. R. Shen, Disordered-surface-layer transition in nematic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. A, 46, 946 [1992). 

Fig. 12.7 Schematic representation of the simple core-shell model for description of the importance of the disordered surface layer in nanoparticle...

On the basis of magnetic susceptibility studies of nano-Li2Mn03 we proposed a model of disordered surface layer, containing Mn " or Mn " ions, both at low spin state, at the surface of these nanoparticles. From the results of structural analysis... 

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