TY - JOUR
T1 - Methodology for fabricating LB films of fullerene
AU - Miura, Yasuhiro F.
AU - Urushibata, Mitsutaka
AU - Matsuoka, Issei
AU - Morita, Shin ichi
AU - Sugi, Michio
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by University-Industry Partnership Program for Private University (2002–2006, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan). The authors are grateful to Mr. Atsushi Yamashita for technical assistance.
PY - 2006/8/15
Y1 - 2006/8/15
N2 - The fullerene (C60) film at the air/water interface has been transferred onto hydrophobic substrates by a modified horizontal lifting method by which substrates are first immersed in the subphase before spreading the film at the air/water interface, and then the film is lifted up. The optical density of the C60 LB film increases 3.9 times by the use of the modified horizontal lifting method compare to that fabricated by the conventional horizontal lifting method. The atomic force microscopy (AFM) observation has revealed that the substrate surface is well covered by the C60 clusters, 0.1-0.4 μm in lateral size, and 30-70 nm in height, without any uncovered areas, while exposure of the bare substrate surface is inevitable by the conventional horizontal lifting method.
AB - The fullerene (C60) film at the air/water interface has been transferred onto hydrophobic substrates by a modified horizontal lifting method by which substrates are first immersed in the subphase before spreading the film at the air/water interface, and then the film is lifted up. The optical density of the C60 LB film increases 3.9 times by the use of the modified horizontal lifting method compare to that fabricated by the conventional horizontal lifting method. The atomic force microscopy (AFM) observation has revealed that the substrate surface is well covered by the C60 clusters, 0.1-0.4 μm in lateral size, and 30-70 nm in height, without any uncovered areas, while exposure of the bare substrate surface is inevitable by the conventional horizontal lifting method.
KW - Fullerene
KW - Horizontal lifting method
KW - Langmuir-Blodgett films
KW - Modified horizontal lifting method
KW - Transfer ratio
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U2 - 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2005.11.036
DO - 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2005.11.036
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33744929392
SN - 0927-7757
VL - 284-285
SP - 93
EP - 96
JO - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
JF - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
ER -