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: In thin films, liquids and polymers 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 to investigating these materials on atomic and mesoscopic length scales. A review of the field is presented with many examples.

materials science
polymer
scattering
surface
thin films

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Reflectivity of x-rays from surfaces
• Reflectivity experiments
• Advanced analysis techniques
• Statistical description of interfaces
• Off-specular scattering
• X-ray scattering with coherent radiation
• Closing remarks
• Back Matter

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Book Title
X-Ray Scattering from Soft-Matter Thin Films

Book Subtitle
Materials Science and Basic Research

Authors
Metin Tolan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0112834

Softcover ISBN
978-3-662-14218-9
Published: 03 October 2013

eBook ISBN
978-3-540-49525-3
Published: 03 December 2007

Series ISSN
0081-3869

Series E-ISSN
1615-0430

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
IX, 198

Number of Illustrations
28 b/w illustrations

Topics
Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Solid State Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy