Lee Don Keun, Kim Young Hwan, Kang Young Soo, Stroeve Pieter
Department of Chemistry, Pukyong National University, 599-1 Daeyeon-3-dong, Nam-gu, Pusan 608-737, South Korea.
J Phys Chem B. 2005 Aug 11;109(31):14939-44. doi: 10.1021/jp052363x.
The preparation of ultrathin films of CoFe2O4 nanocrystallites is reported. TEM images of them showed 2-dimensional assembly of particles, demonstrating the uniformity of these nanocrystallites. The formation of a Langmuir monolayer of the surface coated CoFe2O4 nanocrystallites with oleate at the air/water interface and its stability were studied with pressure-area isotherm curves and Brewster Angle Microscope (BAM) images. Surface pressure vs surface area isotherms and TEM studies demonstrated that the increasing surface pressure resulted in a transition from a complex with well-separated domains of nanocrystallites to well-compressed, monoparticulate layers, and, ultimately, to multiparticulate layers.
