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SAXS Investigation of Core-Shell Microgels with High Scattering Contrast Cores: Access to Structure Factor and Volume Fraction
Marco Hildebrandt, Sergey Lazarev, Javier Pérez +3
To explore dense packings of soft colloids, scattering experiments are ideal to access the structure factor. However, for soft microgels determination of the structure factor is di…
Angular structure factor of the hexatic-B liquid crystals: bridging theory and experiment
Ivan A. Zaluzhnyy, Ruslan P. Kurta, Michael Sprung +2
We report results from X-ray scattering studies of the angular structure factor of liquid crystal hexatic-B films. According to the sixfold rotational symmetry of the hexatic-B pha…
In-situ Characterization of Crystallization and Melting of Soft, Thermoresponsive Microgels by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering
Dmitry Lapkin, Nastasia Mukharamova, Dameli Assalauova +8
Depending on the volume fraction and interparticle interactions, colloidal suspensions can form different phases, ranging from fluids, crystals, and glasses to gels. For soft micro…
Femtosecond laser produced periodic plasma in a colloidal crystal probed by XFEL radiation
Nastasia Mukharamova, Sergey Lazarev, Janne-Mieke Meijer +20
With the rapid development of short-pulse intense laser sources, studies of matter under extreme irradiation conditions enter further unexplored regimes. In addition, an applicatio…
Angular x-ray cross-correlation analysis (AXCCA): Basic concepts and recent applications to soft matter and nanomaterials
Ivan A. Zaluzhnyy, Ruslan P. Kurta, Marcus Scheele +3
Angular x-ray cross-correlation analysis (AXCCA) is a technique which allows quantitative measurement of the angular anisotropy of x-ray diffraction patterns and provides insights…
Unravelling structural rearrangement of polymer colloidal crystals under dry sintering conditions
Alexey V. Zozulya, Ivan A. Zaluzhnyy, Nastasia Mukharamova +7
Structural rearrangement of polystyrene colloidal crystals under dry sintering conditions has been revealed by in situ grazing incidence X-ray scattering. Measured diffraction patt…
Evidence of a first-order smectic -- hexatic transition and its proximity to tricritical point in smectic films
Ivan A. Zaluzhnyy, Ruslan P. Kurta, Nastasia Mukharamova +10
Experimental and theoretical studies of a smectic-hexatic transition in freely suspended films of 54COOBC compound are presented. X-ray investigations revealed a discontinuous firs…
Structural studies of the bond-orientational order and hexatic-smectic transition in liquid crystals of various compositions
I. A. Zaluzhnyy, R. P. Kurta, E. A. Sulyanova +9
We report on X-ray studies of freely suspended hexatic films of three different liquid crystal compounds. By applying angular X-ray cross-correlation analysis (XCCA) to the measure…
Analysis of the shape of x-ray diffraction peaks originating from the hexatic phase of liquid crystal films
I. A. Zaluzhnyy, R. P. Kurta, A. P. Menushenkov +2
X-ray diffraction studies of the bond-orientational order in the hexatic-B phase of 75OBC and 3(10)OBC compounds are presented. The temperature evolution of an angular profile of a…
Direct reconstruction of the two-dimensional pair distribution function in systems with angular correlations
I. A. Zaluzhnyy, R. P. Kurta, A. P. Menushenkov +2
An x-ray scattering approach to determine the two-dimensional (2D) pair distribution function (PDF) in partially ordered 2D systems is proposed. We derive relations between the str…
Spatially resolved x-ray studies of liquid crystals with strongly developed bond-orientational order
I. A. Zaluzhnyy, R. P. Kurta, E. A. Sulyanova +7
We present an x-ray study of freely suspended hexatic films of the liquid crystal 3(10)OBC. Our results reveal spatial inhomogeneities of the bond-orientational (BO) order in the v…
Local structure of semicrystalline P3HT films probed by nanofocused coherent x-rays
Ruslan P. Kurta, Linda Grodd, Eduard Mikayelyan +8
We present results of an x-ray study of structural properties of semicrystalline polymer films using nanofocused x-ray beam. We applied the x-ray cross-correlation analysis (XCCA)…
Spatial properties of conjugated network in semicrystalline polymer thin films studied by intensity x-ray cross-correlation functions
R. P. Kurta, L. Grodd, E. Mikayelyan +6
We present results of x-ray study of spatial properties of conjugated networks in polymer thin films. We applied the x-ray cross-correlation analysis to x-ray scattering data…
X-ray cross-correlation analysis of liquid crystal membranes in the vicinity of hexatic-smectic phase transition
R. P. Kurta, B. I. Ostrovskii, A. Singer +7
We present an x-ray study of liquid crystal membranes in the vicinity of hexatic-smectic phase transition by means of angular x-ray cross-correlation analysis (XCCA). By applying t…
Adsorption-Induced Distortion of F_{16}CuPc on Cu(111) and Ag(111): An X-ray Standing Wave Study
A. Gerlach, F. Schreiber, S. Sellner +5
The adsorption geometry of perfluorinated copper-phthalocyanine molecules (F_{16}CuPc) on Cu(111) and Ag(111) is studied using X-ray standing waves. A detailed, element-specific an…