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How Rigid Rods Self‐Assemble at Curved Surfaces
Author(s) -
Zhou Weizheng,
Cao Jian,
Liu Weichang,
Stoyanov Simeon
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200804194
Subject(s) - rod , bubble , binary number , colloid , materials science , crystallography , polymer science , composite material , physics , mechanics , chemistry , chemical engineering , mathematics , engineering , medicine , alternative medicine , arithmetic , pathology
I'm forever blowing bubbles : Superstable foams comprising air bubbles stabilized by modified, rigid CaCO 3 rods have a bimodal bubble‐size distribution. The very high stability and stiffness of the rod‐stabilized bubbles means that their spherical shape is retained when dried on glass substrates and that they could be ordered into 2D binary colloidal crystals, with large bubbles at the bottom and small bubbles filling the spaces in between (see picture).