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How do rod-like molecules freeze and arrange in mesopores?
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2003-01-15
Sprache
English
Volume
15
Issue
1
Start Page
S309
End Page
S314
Citation
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 15 (1): S309-S314 (2003-01-15)
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Publisher
IOP Publ.
We present an x-ray diffraction study on rod-like molecules, i.e. the normal alkanes C19H40 and C9H20 condensed in nanoporous Vycor glass. Temperature-dependent diffraction patterns elucidate how the structure and phase behaviour of these molecules are affected by the random substrate disorder and the geometric confinement. For the medium-length alkane C19H40 a quenching of the lamellar ordering is observed, whereas this geometric ordering principle survives in the case of the short-length C9H20, although in a modified fashion.
DDC Class
530: Physik