It is important to note that these results only give information regarding the minimum area due to steric effects that can be occupied by molecules adsorbed on the surface in a thermodynamically stable monolayer. It is not necessarily a realistic depiction of the maximum coverage that can be kinetically accessed in realistic timescales, since the OFM monolayers are preformed. Jaishankar et al. suggested that the maximum accessible coverage can be illustrated both using the MTT and the random sequential adsorption (RSA) model. The RSA model describes the irreversible adsorption of hard-disks on a uniform surface, which predicts a maximum coverage below the closed-packed maximum one, in which all of the surface would be covered. This is a result of irreversible adsorption and absence of restructuring between adsorption events, creating a jamming limit that was in agreement with the results by Jaishankar et al. In reality the value of the effective hard-disk area occupied by each molecule on the surface From the literature, one can find several values for different OFMs. One should distinguish between area per molecule (total area divided by the number of molecules) and effective hard-disk area (due to steric effects, serving as input for the MTT model). The former will always be greater than or equal than the later. Davidson et al. calculated the area per molecule for 1-monooctyl glycerol at high coverage with MD, finding an average area per molecule of 0.225 nm 2 . Kawaguchi et al. studied the surface properties of mono-, di-and triglycerol monostearate monolayers at the air-water interface, finding a limiting area per GMS molecule of 0.26 nm 2 . They explain that the area per molecule of GMS is larger than the area per molecule of SA (0.2 nm 2 97 or 0.22 nm ) due to the larger headgroup size.