Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9783662142189
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: ix, 198 S., 28 s/w Illustr., 198 p. 28 illus.
Format (T/L/B): 1.4 x 23.5 x 15.7 cm
Einband: kartoniertes Buch
Beschreibung
The properties of soft-matter thin films (e.g. liquid films, polymer coatings, Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers) nowadays play an important role in materials science.They are also very exciting with respect to fundamental questions: When liquids and polymers form thin films, they may be considered as trapped in a quasi-two-dimensional geometry. This confined geometry is expected to alter the properties and structures of these materials considerably. This volume is dedicated to the scattering of x-rays by soft-matter interfaces. X-ray scattering under grazing angles is the only tool for investigating these materials on atomic and mesoscopic length scales. A review of the field is presented with many examples.