https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2009-00952-5
X-ray surface radiolysis: Kinetics of the metal-organic interface formation
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Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin, BP. 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), Université Paris VI et VII, UMR CNRS 7588, Campus Boucicaut, 140 rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France
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UFR Biomédicale des Saint-Pères, Université René Descartes, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75231 Paris Cedex 06, France
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Concervatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM), 292 rue Saint Martin, 75141 Paris Cedex 03, France
Corresponding author: marie-claude.faure@insp.jussieu.fr
Grazing incidence x-ray irradiation of a Langmuir monolayer deposited at the interface between an aqueous silver salt solution and the air leads to the formation of a metallic silver layer of thickness about 4.5 nm, in agreement to the x-ray penetration depth at the air – water interface. Moreover using the scattering and fluorescence induced by the x-ray, we show that it is possible to follow the kinetics of formation of the layer. It appear that the silver layer is formed in two steps: first, the formation of small oriented cristallites, and second, the coalescence of the cristallites forming large plates.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2009
