Interfacial structures of graft co-polymer/surfactant mixtures

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Understanding the adsorption behaviour of polymer/surfactant mixtures at the air-water interface is of fundamental importance and has direct relevance to a variety of practical applications, e.g. consumer goods products, and paper and oil industries. In recent years, studies using surface-sensitive experimental techniques such as X-ray and neutron reflectivity have considerably advanced our understanding on interfacial behaviours of polymer/surfactant mixtures. In this proposal, the focus is on two neutral comb co-polymers with a hydrophilic PEG backbone and a varying length and density of hydrophobic PVAc grafts, particularly when they are with a non-ionic surfactant C12E5 (bearing similar molecular structure to the PEG backbone). We are motivated by their conjectured effective roles in stabilizing foams and removing grease in P&G household products. Comb co-polymers can be thought of as a very sparsely grafted polymer brushes, and therefore, some interesting interfacial properties are expected following their self-assembly with surfactant at the air-water interface.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.9-12-410
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.9-12-410
Provenance
Creator Slastanova, Anna; Robles, Eric; Snow, John; Chen, Meng; Campbell, Richard; Briscoe, Wuge
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2015
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Size 3 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields