Self-healing of surfactant surface micelles on millisecond time scales |
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Authors: | Schniepp Hannes C Saville Dudley A Aksay Ilhan A |
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Institution: | Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. |
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Abstract: | We study the dynamics of surfactant micelles at the solid-liquid interface using a new atomic force-microscopic imaging mode to visualize the nanometer-level structural features of the micelles and the picometer-level lattice of the substrate simultaneously. We find that defects created in a crystalline micellar array by the scanning probe tip self-heal flawlessly in less than 6 ms. |
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