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There is a long history of research into the properties of insoluble monolayers at the air/water interface. This topic is receiving renewed attention because of the availability of new techniques that provide information about the microscopic structures of monolayer phases1 and because the properties of monolayers are related to those of more complex fluids composed of amphiphiles. I will focus primarily on the results of one type of experiment, fluorescence microscopy, and I will briefly describe some of the rich variety of phenomena that can be observed in studies of equilibrium and dynamic properties with this method.
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Knobler, C.M. (1990). Phase Transitions & Pattern Formation in Monolayers. In: Stanley, H.E., Ostrowsky, N. (eds) Correlations and Connectivity. NATO ASI Series, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2157-3_20
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