Université de Fribourg

Rigid urea and self-healing thiourea ethanolamine monolayers

Stefaniu, Cristina ; Zaffalon, Pierre-Léonard ; Verolet, Alessio Carmine ∥, Quentin ; Fernandez, Samuel ; Wesolowski, Tomasz A. ; Brezesinski, Gerald ; Zumbuehl, Andreas

In: Langmuir, 2015, vol. 31, no. 4, p. 1296–1302

A series of long-tail alkyl ethanolamine analogs containing amide-, urea-, and thiourea moieties was synthesized and the behavior of the corresponding monolayers was assessed on the Langmuir–Pockels trough combined with grazing incidence X-ray diffraction experiments and complemented by computer simulations. All compounds form stable monolayers at the soft air/water interface. The phase...