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Hydration and sweetness of synthetic sweeteners
Recently, the degree of sweetness of natural sugars has been associated and correlated to their hydration shell (strength, orientation and length of their hydrogen bonds with... -
Anion effects on self-assembly in deep eutectic solvents.
Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) are mixtures of an organic salt with a hydrogen bond donor that form strong interactions which hinder crystallisation. DES share many features with... -
Expected micro-phase separation of aqueous solutions confined in MCM-41
In a current project we are studying the interplay between water and other H-bonded liquids using many different experimental techniques. The most interesting results have been... -
High pressure for liquids project on SANDALS
This beamtime request is part of a long term project based on the liquids diffractometer SANDALS and aimed at developing the use of Paris-Edinburgh press for liquids and in... -
Alcohols in Cationic Surfactant Micelle Solutions
This proposal continues our studies of water and small molecule binding around surfactant micelles using NIMROD, to obtain previously inaccessible details of their molecular... -
Silica binding to nonionic micelles: effect of headgroup size
This proposal continues our research on ion binding to surfactant micelles. Our recent work demonstrates that the details of water structure around micelles are now accessible... -
Encapsulation of Hydrophobic Species in Surfactant Micelles
Our recent work demonstrates that the details of water structure around micelles are now accessible using Empirical Potential Structure Refinement methods combined with neutron... -
Counterion binding to nonionic micelles: effect on interactions with silica
This proposal continues our research on ion binding to surfactant micelles. Our recent work demonstrates that the details of water structure around micelles are now accessible... -
Structure and Reaction Kinetics of Phenylacetylene Hydrogenation in a Porous ...
This project aims to study the confinement of phenyl acetylene in the pores of mesoporous titania catalysts for the conversion into styrene. Specifically, neutron scattering... -
Aromatic/aliphatic binary mixtures in a porous substrate studied by total neu...
Confined liquids are an important subject of research in many areas, such as geology, biology, food and drug preservation, and heterogeneous catalysis. These liquids can have... -
Structure and Water Binding in Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents
Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) are molecular mixtures similar to ionic liquids, having melting points below room temperature. However instead of being composed of a salt, the... -
Structural determination of SMA-lipid particles in solution
The development of styrene-maleic acid lipid particles (SMALP) is opening the door to better understanding the nature of membrane proteins, these particles have been well... -
Nanostructures in hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents
Deep eutectic solvents (DES) are mixtures of organic salts and hydrogen bond donors, that form strongly hydrogen-bonded room temperature liquids. DES share many features with... -
Characterising the amorphicity and porosity of ice aggregates in planet-formi...
With the discovery of almost 3000 exo-planets it is clear that planet formation is a by-product of star formation, yet in the micron ? cm size range, where relative velocities... -
Time dependent liquid structure studies over Ru/MCM-41 during alcohol hydroge...
Our previous in situ study of benzene hydrogenation by Pt/MCM-41 (RB1220486) allowed us to monitor the transformation of the total scattering pattern as a function of time... -
Micelle Formation in Lanthanide-Based DES
Deep eutectic solvents (DES) share many features with ionic liquids (ie. tunable physicochemical properties) which makes them viable green solvents that are less toxic than... -
Characterisation of structure for the determination of liquid thermodynamic c...
This proposal is a continuation of prior combined NMR, SANS and diffraction measurements to characterise templated silicas, as part of a program to inform the behaviour of... -
Encapsulation of Hydrophobic Species in Surfactant Micelles
Our recent work demonstrates that the details of water structure around micelles are now accessible using Empirical Potential Structure Refinement methods combined with neutron... -
Cationic surfactant self-assembly in choline chloride:malonic acid deep eutec...
Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) are mixtures of organic salts and hydrogen bond donors, that form strongly hydrogen-bonded room temperature ionic liquids (ILs). DES share many... -
Cationic & Nonionic Micelles in Deep Eutectic Solvents
Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) are molecular mixtures similar to ionic liquids, having melting points below room temperature. DES share many of the features of ionic liquids (low...
