Nuzzo and Allara were also studying self-assembled monolayers at Bell Labs.

Nuzzo 和 Allara 当时在贝尔实验室也在研究自层膜。

These layers formed by chemical reactions, not physical pressure, would come to be called self-assembled monolayers.

因化学反应而压力产生的这种子膜，会被称为“自子膜”。

And he said, these are monolayers.

他说这是子层。

Jacob had just discovered that you don't need physical pressure to create these monolayers.

Jacob 发现我们无需压力就能制造这种子层。

Even his former mentor, Hans Kuhn, criticized Jacob's self-assembled monolayers.

甚至 Jacob 之前的导师 Hans Kuhn 都批评他的自层膜。

Jacob's friend explained that these monolayers were formed by putting molecules in water.

Jacob 的朋友解释了将子放入水中而形成子层的过程。

Everyone else at the lab was comfortable using Langmuir–Blodgett monolayers and they didn't want to change course.

实验室其他人用 Langmuir–Blodgett 层膜很顺手，他们不想改变实验过程。

If the Langmuir–Blodgett monolayers were too compressed to reorganize, what if you didn't use them at all?

如果 Langmuir–Blodgett 层膜过于紧密而无法重，那么彻底不用它又会如何呢？

The Langmuir–Blodgett monolayers were created by pushing a lot of molecules together and now they were stuck.

Langmuir–Blodgett 子层是大量子被推到一起而形成的，而现在子彼此黏住了。