Structure of Colloidal Crystals Near a Solid Surface

DOI

The structure of colloidal crystals (dispersions of particles that spontaneously order in a regular array) is known to be influenced by solid boundaries. However there are few studies that exploit the power of neutron reflection to probe these solid/liquid boundaries. A fundamental study of the structure of colloidal dispersions and how it is influenced by an interface is proposed. The experiments will use a combination of neutron reflection and off-specular scattering to measure the profile normal to the surface and probe lateral surface structure for model systems composed of charged polystyrene particles in water. To optimise signal for the studies and exploit the possibility to probe both near the surface and in the bulk, samples of both deuterated and hydrogenous latex have been prepared.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24081716
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24081716
Provenance
Creator Professor Adrian Rennie; Dr Maja Hellsing; Dr Vassilis Kapaklis; Dr Arwel Hughes
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 2011-03-26T08:20:01Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-06-06T06:49:08Z