Structural investigations of low-temperature "trapped solutions" of C60 fullerene in water

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We propose a series of neutron scattering measurement to determine the water structure in amorphous H2O/C60 fullerene vapour deposits. We believe that these samples, prepared by low-temperature co-deposition and sintering, provide a good model system for aqueous solutions containing high concentrations of hydrophobes, which cannot be studied in any other way. Lab characterisations of our samples indicate that C60 is well dispersed within H2O and that the C60 strongly influences the thermal and structural properties of the samples. We plan to analyse 9 samples with 0, 1 or 5 vol% C60, and 0, 50 or 100 mol% D2O. This will enable us to study the distance over which the water structure is influenced by the hydrophobe by comparing structure factors, and also enable us to prepare model structures using the software package EPSR. This study will improve our understanding of hydrophobic forces.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089214
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089214
Provenance
Creator Professor John Evans; Dr Daniel Bowron; Dr Silvia Imberti; Professor Christoph Salzmann; Mr Jacob Shephard
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-08-04T06:55:37Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-08-10T06:53:42Z