Adsorption of surfactants used in fire-fighting foams

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The aim is to use Neutron Reflectivity (NR) to gain essential information on adsorption properties of practical fluorotelomer surfactants used in fire-fighting foam formulations (Figure 1). NR is needed to further understanding how molecular packing in air-water interfacial films influences surface tensions. These surfactants have already been studied individually by SANS and this provided necessary information on the self-assembled structures in solution. This is the first stage in a new 3-year program, including NR, so that F-carbon surfactants can be replaced by more environmentally-responsive low-F or hydrocarbon analogues. A sister proposal has been submitted this round to study aggregation of these surfactants as mixed systems by SANS (“Micellization in mixtures of surfactants used in fire-fighting foams”). Chris Hill is a 2nd year PhD student fully funded by Angus Fire.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.86389290
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/86389290
Provenance
Creator Miss Jocelyn Peach; Dr Adam Czajka; Professor Julian Eastoe; Mr Christopher Hill; Dr Maxmilian Skoda; Mr Jonny Pegg; Dr Gavin Hazell
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
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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Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-05-15T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-05-17T08:00:00Z