Order at soft-hard interfaces – Pulak Dutta

Date: Mon. January 27th, 2003, 12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Location: Rockefeller 221

The ordering of soft materials at hard surfaces is by now a familiar process, but the nucleation of hard materials at soft templates is also common in nature (‘biomineralization’). This talk will describe in situ X-ray scattering studies of both types of interfacial phenomena: the ordering of molecular liquids near hard surfaces, and the epitaxial growth of inorganic crystals under floating (Langmuir) monolayers.