Worm-like reversed micelles with a CO2-philic surfactant

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Hydrotropes (Figure 3 A-C) are known viscosifying agents with surfactants in organic solvents1 and interestingly now in supercritical CO2 (scCO2)5. The mechanism is hydrotrope-induced micelle growth to generate worm-like reverse micelles (WLRMs) 1,3,5. This experiment is to develop new surfactant+hydrotrope (or phenol) gelator combinations which are not only organophilic, but are also at same time CO2-philic. These would be unique WLRM systems, able to viscosify/gelate both oils and scCO2. In this initial phase organogelation will be studied, and these results will inform future studies with the same mixtures in scCO2 under high pressure conditions. A new approach taken here is to combine hydrotropes and phenols with a known CO2-phillic surfactant (TC14, Figure 2), and for these three-component mixtures greater viscosity enhancements are expected than for hydrotropes alone.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58449035
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58449035
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Creator Mr Craig Davies; Dr Adam Czajka; Professor Julian Eastoe; Mr Miguel Hinojosa Navarro; Mr David Yan; Dr Gavin Hazell; Miss Jocelyn Peach; Mr Jonny Pegg; Dr Sarah Rogers
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
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 Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-03-26T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-03-28T14:53:44Z