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Inside Cover: How Rigid Rods Self‐Assemble at Curved Surfaces (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2/2009)
Author(s) -
Zhou Weizheng,
Cao Jian,
Liu Weichang,
Stoyanov Simeon
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200890282
Subject(s) - rod , micrometer , bubble , materials science , cover (algebra) , surface (topology) , air bubble , stiffness , optics , nanotechnology , composite material , crystallography , geometry , chemistry , mechanics , physics , mathematics , mechanical engineering , engineering , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Superstable foams that contain air bubbles stabilized by modified, rigid CaCO 3 rods are reported by W. Liu, S. Stoyanov, and co‐workers in their Communication on page 378 ff. The very high stability and stiffness of the rod‐stabilized bubbles means that their spherical shape is retained when dried on glass substrates. Despite the massive difference in length, the surface pattern of a 120 micrometer bubble with 25 micrometer rods is similar to that of 10 meter logs on a river surface.