Evidence for a Diffuse Interfacial Region at the Dichloroethane/Water Interface

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The 1,2- dichloroethane (DCE)/water interface is important because of its suitability as an electrochemical interface between two immiscible electrolyte soloutions. An issue of particular interest is whether the interfacial region is molecularly sharp or is comprised of a diffuse mixed interfacial region. Optical sum-frequency and recent neutron measurements suggest the interface is broader than can be accounted for by capilary waves alone although molecular dynamics simulations suggest it should be sharp on a molecular level.One novel way to approach this problem is to study the vapour/DCE interface using controlled water humidity. An increase in interfacial roughness with increasing humidity would be expected if interfacial mixing occurs.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24003273
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24003273
Provenance
Creator Dr Robert Dalgliesh; Dr John Webster; Dr Ali Zarbakhsh
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2010
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2007-11-26T09:29:25Z
Temporal Coverage End 2007-11-29T23:59:34Z