Professor Moshe Deutsch

Liquid surfaces & interfaces, nanoscale mono- and multilayers,

molecular electronics, synchrotron x-ray techniques.
tel: +972-(0)3-5318476; fax: +972-(0)3-5353298
e-mail: deutsch@mail.biu.ac.il

Short Biography
B.Sc. Tel-Aviv University, M.Sc. & Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University (Cum Laude).
Visiting professor at Harvard University, King’s College (London), Manchester University,
and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
 Registered user at several synchrotrons worldwide (HASYLAB, ESRF,APS,NSLS,SRS).
 Chair, Physics Department, 1991-4.
 Chair, National Synchrotron Radiation Committee, Israel National Academy of Sciences.
 Chair, Division of Exact Sciences and Engineering, Israel National Science Foundation.
Research Overview
Sub-nanometer-resolution synchrotron x-ray studies of liquid surfaces and their over-layers.
Surfaces of liquid metals and alloys, surface wetting, surface oxidation. Organic monolayers
and multilayers on aqueous and liquid metal surfaces, particularly of molecular-electronics
compounds like acene derivatives and thiols of several ring compounds. Surfaces of ionic
liquids and salt solutions, organic melts, and liquid-liquid interfaces.
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 ……Many interesting phenomena occur at surfaces
Physics: melting, wetting, nano-scale electronic effects, etc.
Chemistry: catalysis, crystal nucleation, etc.
Biology: membrane activity in cells, many life-processes, etc.
Knowledge of the structure of a surface, often
on a sub-nanometer scale, is a prerequisite for
understanding many of these phenomena.

‫“ורוח אלוקים מרחפת על פני‬

(‫המים” )בראשית א' ב‬

“And the spirit of G-d hovers over

the water” (Genesis 1 2)

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 Nano-scale layering at liquid metal
surfaces
The different interaction in metallic :First experimental verification
)by x—ray refelctivity, 1995(
and dielectric liquids should lead
to a fundamentally different
surface structure (S. Rice, 1960)
Metallic Dielectric
L=5.8± 0.4 Å
d=2.56 ± 0.01
Å

Layering peak
Layering peaks observed also in
Hg, In, Sn, K and several alloys.
 Other surface-induced effects Gallium at RT
were also found (Sn).
M. Regan et al., PRL 75, 2498 (1995)
 Layering in liquid metals is well
established experimentally.

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Stearic acid films
on mercury

Surface-normal

coexistence
Flat-normal
flat-
lying
bilayer
 Strong surface-
chain attraction:
(a) causes flat-lying
phases.
(b) prevents buckling monolayer of flat-lying
of film. molecules
(gas,condensed)
 Attraction range:
~10 Å (bilayer, not
trilayer !).

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For the lying-down phases:
(52<A<120 Å2/molecule)
• q|| =0.12 Å-1 (4 orders) ⇔ d=2π /q||
=52 Å ⇔ ~2 molecular lengths.
• No q|| ≈ 1.5 Å-1 peaks.

One-dimensional order along

molecular axis
Structure consists of lying-down z y
doimers.
y

x
2D Smectic: x
ordered stripes, no order along
stripe
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 Alkyl thiol films on mercury

Hg2+
salt

Hg
metal
2(5.03)Å ~3.0Å
Tails: centered rectangular
.Heads: non-centered rectangular

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