title: Self-healing of surfactant surface micelles on millisecond time scales.
abstract: We study the dynamics of surfactant micelles at the solid-liquid interface using a new atomic force-microscopic imaging mode to visualize the nanometer-level structural features of the micelles and the picometer-level lattice of the substrate simultaneously. We find that defects created in a crystalline micellar array by the scanning probe tip self-heal flawlessly in less than 6 ms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Hannes C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Schniepp
authors.forename: Dudley A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Saville
authors.forename: Ilhan A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Aksay