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Named after Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett, who invented the technique at General Electric Co.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Langmuir-Blodgett film
Today it means: A nanostructured system formed when monolayers are transferred from a liquid-gas interface to solid supports during the vertical passage of the support through the monolayers. Full definition →