Abstract
Sum-frequency spectroscopy (SFS) in the CH and OH stretching regions was employed to obtain structural information about Langmuir monolayers on the H(2)O subphase of the model lipid dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide (DOMA) and of the neutral surfactant methyl stearate (SME) and their mixtures and about the interfacial water structure underneath the films. These results were compared with the sum-frequency spectra of the interface between Langmuir monolayers of stearic acid and stearic acid-DOMA monolayers and water to prove that the uncompensated headgroup charge of DOMA at the interface is the reason for structuring of interfacial water close to the studied monomolecular films. Sum-frequency spectra on D(2)O subphase were also studied to account for the interference between the CH and OH spectral signatures because of the coherent nature of the SFS signals. Interfacial water structure proved to be a determining factor in the behavior of the mixed lipid monolayers. A mixing induced amplification in the surface potential DeltaV observed in our previous work was explained with total increase of the dipole moment for the mixed films, bigger than the arithmetic average for DOMA and SME monolayers alone. The increase is due to the better packing of the molecules in the mixed films and to the decrease in the interfacial water dipole moment arising from a more disordered water structure underneath the mixed monolayers.
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