Nguyen Thi Hue, Vu Thi Thanh Tam, Nguyen Anh Tuan

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Abstract

Abstract: In this report, we studied the effect of halide salt concentration on Arachidic Acid (AA) Langmuir monolayers formed on salt solutions, such as NaCl, NaI, NaF by using a Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy. In the SFG spectra, we observed the peak intensities of CH3FR and CH3SS vibrational modes decreased when increasing the salt concentration. This observation indicates that the structure of the AA monolayer was disordered by the interaction of the dissolved ions with the carboxyl head groups of the monolayer.

Keywords: Langmuir monolayer, interfacial structure, Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy.

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