SANS Study of the interaction of reconstituted model wheat waxes with non-ionic surfactants

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The understanding of the plant wax-surfactant interaction process is crucial to the development of more effective pesticide and fungicide formulations, essential for improving food production whilst reducing environmental impact. It is widely recognised that the detergency actions of surfactants can hugely influence the transport properties of both water and active ingredients through the waxy leaf surface, however the role of the different wax components is not well understood.The aim of this work is to study how long-chain alcohols and alkyl-esters (the main components that make up wheat and barley waxes) interact with non-ionic CnEm micelles. This study will enable us to determine how representative the alcohol and ester chains are in the reconstituted waxes and to observe the influence of these component chains upon the miceller shape and structure through solubilisation..

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.89857638
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/89857638
Provenance
Creator Dr Meiwen Cao; Professor Jian Lu; Professor Jiqian Wang; Mr Ruiheng Li; Mr Xuzhi Hu; Mr Elias Pambou; Dr Sarah Rogers; Dr Peixun Li
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
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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Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-11-26T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-11-28T09:22:07Z