Langmuir-Blodgett films long-chain fatty acid

Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Azobenzene-Containing Long Chain Fatty Acids and Their Salts Studied by Ultraviolet-visible and Infrared Spectroscopy. Langmuir 10, 236i (1994). 

Sato, T, Ozaki, Y., and iriyama, K. Molecular aggregation and photoisomerization of Langmuir-Blodgett-films of azobenzene-containing long-chain fatty-acids and their salts studied by ultraviolet-visible and infrared spectroscopies. Langmuir 1994, 10, 2363-2369. 

Recently, the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique has been recognized as a useful way of tailoring thin films of molecular thickness. Interest in the LB technique has led to a number of investigations of different types of materials. For example, the classic long-chain fatty acids and alcohols as well as polymerizable molecules, e.g. diacetylenic acids [211-213], aromatic hydrocarbons, e.g. substituted anthracenes [214, 215], TCNQ radical anion salts [216, 217] and charge transfer complexes [218-220] and dye substances can now all be produced as monomolecular layers. 

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