Beschrijving
Surface structure determines many of the most important properties of the common liquids; yet, only indirect measurements of the surface structure were possible until recently. Thus, liquid surfaces were conventionally assumed to be even more disordered than the bulk liquid. In the last decade, high-brilliance synchrotron light sources were built, and the surfaces of many liquids were proved to be highly-ordered. This work demonstrates some of the most striking results obtained by scattering x-ray radiation off the liquid surfaces, such as the surface layering in ionic liquids, promising \
