The formation of water-in-supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsions using quad-chain hydrocarbon surfactants

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For twenty years scientists have been searching for surfactants able to solubilise water nano-domains in supercritical carbon dioxide, scCO2 (as water-in-scCO2 microemulsions, W/scCO2 μE) into which larger polar molecules can be dissolved. To date the most successful CO2-phillic surfactants contain fluorocarbon chains as tail groups. However, these are expensive and environmentally unfavourable and so there is much interest in designing low fluorine/hydrocarbon replacements. A novel series of surfactants containing four hydrocarbon chains selected to be known CO2-philic groups have been synthesised and initial experiments show them to be promising candidates for water-in-CO2 microemulsion formation. The proposed experiment aims to elucidate the self-assembly of these surfactant in scCO2 using the only viable technique, small-angle neutron scattering.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42578673
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42578673
Provenance
Creator Mr David Yan; Dr Craig James; Dr Gregory Smith; Dr Shirin Alexander; Miss Jocelyn Peach; Professor Julian Eastoe; Mr Miguel Hinojosa Navarro; Professor Masanobu Sagisaka; Dr Sarah Rogers
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
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 2014-03-26T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-03-28T09:20:26Z