Gelation and spin crossover transitions in gels formed from 1d metallo-organic complexes

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This proposal is part of a research programme at Reading which is focused on thermoresponsive supramolecular gels formed from self-assembling metallo organic polymers. These gels are thermally reversible. Interest in these novel materials is centred on the spin-crossover of the 1-d metallo-organic complex with clear technological applications. We centre attention on the gelation properties of a metallo-organic polymer of [Fe(II) (4-octadecyl - 1,2,4 - triazole) 3(ClO4)2]n in three organic solvents: toluene, cis-decalin and trans-decalin. This system exhibits a spin crossover transition at ~50C. These small-angle neutron scattering will provide much needed structural data on the self-assembly, the gelation process and their relationship to the spin crossover transition. The neutron scattering techniques will be supported by x-ray scattering, TEM, DSC and rheology.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24086399
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24086399
Provenance
Creator Professor Geoffrey Mitchell; Dr Daniel Lopez Garcia; Dr Fred Davis
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 2011-07-11T09:38:25Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-07-14T09:17:46Z