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SUBMITTER: Pocivavsek L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2720559 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soft matter 20080101
Surfactants at air/water interfaces are often subjected to mechanical stresses as the interfaces they occupy are reduced in area. The most well characterized forms of stress relaxation in these systems are first order phase transitions from lower density to higher density phases. Here we study stress relaxation in lipid monolayers that occurs once chemical phase transitions have been exhausted. At these highly compressed states, the monolayer undergoes global mechanical relaxations termed collap ...[more]