noun
definition
A layer of material that is one molecule thick
definition
A layer of tissue that is one cell thick
Examples of monolayer in a Sentence
Growth of thin films occurs at a rate which deposits material at the rate of around 1 monolayer per second.
This surface coat is a monolayer of five million variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) dimers that form a macromolecular diffusion barrier.
For example, what is the transition temperature on HOPG of an isolated adsorbed monolayer not in contact with bulk liquid crystal?
To the best of our knowledge this is the first example of sensing of cations in water by a self-assembled monolayer on glass.
The reagents used for cleaning will be likely to penetrate the porous body and residual contamination may well be found beyond the first monolayer.
The changes in crystal morphology observed under the different monolayers were attributed to changes in the monolayer structure as a function of chain length.
An ellipsometer has been installed in order to follow the absorption process of the protein to the lipid monolayer.
The surface of the particle shows a monolayer of bound surfactant molecules (far right).