SANS Study of the interaction of non-ionic surfactants with wheat and barley waxes at different temperatures

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We propose to make use of SANS to determine the influence the presence of cuticular plant waxes have on the size, shape and structural properties of various non-ionic surfactants. This work will help explain the wax removal and plasticisation processes that are observed as surfactant micelles are introduced onto plant surfaces, which resultantly significantly increase waxes permeability to water and active ingredients.Furthermore, we will use SANS to investigate how this affect changes with temperature, mimicking the environmental conditions plant waxes would experience. As the amorphous content of waxes is very sensitive to temperature change, we hope for exciting results. We request 4 days of SANS2D beam-time to complete the planned investigation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58446334
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58446334
Provenance
Creator Mr Elias Pambou; Professor Jian Lu; Mr Zhe Li; Dr Steve King; Professor Hai Xu; Professor Jiqian Wang
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 Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-04-09T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-04-13T08:00:00Z