Manipulation of the aggregate curvature in water/dense CO2 system

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This proposal aims to investigate how the curvature of surfactant assemblies in water/dense CO2 systems can be tuned via the design and mixing of CO2-phillic surfactants. One approach to tune the curvature is the mixing of a negative-curvature-oriented surfactant with a zero-curvature-oriented, and our previous study has already found those. In addition to the surfactant-mixing, rearranging of FC and HC segments in the surfactant to be a hybrid surfactant is also of interest as some hybrid surfactants have been reported to form the rod-like micelles. Greater control over aggregate curvature will allow for the formation of elongated reverse micelles and/or bicontinuous microemulsions, which can increase the CO2 viscosity and also lead to a greater solubilising capacity. Then, it will be key in developing an efficient, effective, and industry-acceptable solubilizer for W/CO2 system.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089939
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089939
Provenance
Creator Professor Julian Eastoe; Dr Craig James; Mr Paul Brown; Dr Gregory Smith; Mr David Yan; Professor Masanobu Sagisaka; Dr Asad Khan
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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 2012-12-10T09:18:55Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-12-14T10:23:10Z