Phase separation of hydrocarbon-fluorocarbon surfactants at the air/water interface

DOI

Off-specular neutron reflection beamtime is requested to study phase separation at the air/water interface. Stability of systems, such as polymers, is a major area of interest as many technological applications, for example biological scaffolding and templating, require highly stabilized systems. Before complex ¿real life¿ systems can be studied using this technique, experiments on model and well controlled systems must first be performed. Here, the natural incompatibility of fluorocarbon and hydrocarbon moities will be exploited to drive a controlled local phase segregation at the air/water interface. The natural neutron contrast between the fluorinated and hydrogenated components will be exploited to give a full picture of the system under study.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079178
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079178
Provenance
Creator Dr Sarah Rogers; Dr Robert Dalgliesh
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-12-11T09:24:29Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-12-15T08:08:46Z