"Theory and Observation of High Energy Particles in Space"
K. A. Suresh
Raman Research Institute
Bangalore, India
Abstract
Langmuir monolayers at the air-water interface are formed by amphiphilic molecules.A large number of
materials like fatty acids, mesogenic molecules,polymers and phospholipids form stable monolayers.
These monolayers exhibit a variety of 2 dimensional(D)phases. It is known that they can
exhibit as many as 17 different 2D structures. In this talk, I will present the results on the
transformation of a Langmuir monolayer into 3D structures possessing liquid crystalline order , mixed
monolayer systems that to yield induced phases and phase separation, and patterns in the monolayer in the vicinity
of a critical point. Some preliminary work on the monolayer of DNA complexes will be described.