Order in the bulk and at the surface of dispersions of colloidal particles

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Highly ordered dispersions of charged polymer particles that are tens or hundreds of nanometres diameter can be prepared. These are useful model systems for self-assembly and provide interesting routes to preparation of new materials such as photonic devices. The different effects of the screened Coulomb interactions and the constraint of a hard wall are important in determining nucleation and growth of crystals and interface structures. This proposal is to continue previous succesful experiments using the spin-echo techniques SERGIS (interfacial structure) and SESANS (bulk correlations) to study specifically the effects of particle size and concentration. These will be used to study large latex particles at a buried interface (sapphire substrate/dispersion) and within the bulk of the same samples.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089602
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089602
Provenance
Creator Dr Robert Dalgliesh; Dr Arwel Hughes; Professor Adrian Rennie; Dr Maja Hellsing; Dr Vassilis Kapaklis; Miss Stephanie Jones; Professor Martin King; Dr Andy Ward
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-10-08T08:17:08Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-10-21T11:03:14Z