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This proposal aims to explore aggregation behavior of common surfactants in magnetic ionic liquids (MILs) and to investigate the effect of a magnetic field on aggregate size,...

Protection of biological molecules during freezing and lyophilisation is of commercial importance to the pharmaceutical, medical, and food industries. Sugars and surfactants...

Gene delivery vehicles, known as LPD complexes, prepared from mixing cationic lipid vesicles (L) with cationic peptide (P) and DNA (D) have proven to be very effective at...

Nanogranular thin films of FexM100-x (M=Au,Ag; x=7,20,39) are an excellent system to study the magnetism of nanoparticles in diamagnetic matrices coupled by direct, RKKY and...

Time is requested for a proof of principle time of flight flux line lattice measurement

Reheat cracking is a creep failure mode that has been observed in welded structures operating at high temperatures in the power generation industry. The failure results from the...

Associative polymers have a very important role as rheological modifiers, due to their ability to form interconnected networks of hydrophobic domains. Additionally,...

A recent LOQ experiment revealed that co-monomers are homogenously distributed within regions of colloidal poly(NIPAM) microgel particles. This proposal has two aims: (1) refine...

Endocytosis plays a central role in allowing the selective transport of molecules, via membrane-derived vesicles, into cells. Vesicle formation is controlled by a complex...

For deionised, charge stabilised latices, there has been some uncertainty about the stacking sequence of close packed layers in samples at equilibrium. The ABCA stacking in...

Abnormally glycosylated IgA leads to IgA nephropathy, the most common cause of renal failure. IgG antibody represents one-third of new drugs currently in development, and its...

This proposal constitutes part of our ongoing study towards understanding how keratin, an important protein component of hair and skin, interacts with ionic surfactants using...

The main objective of this proposal is to study the structure of the interface between a semiconducting liquid crystal (LC) and a soft dielectric substrate for their potential...

The formation of stable particle dispersions are essential to the success of a wide range of commercial products from inks, paints and foodstuffs to cosmetic and pharmaceutical...

Tri-block copolymers offer an excellent model system for the study of crystallization in the bulk as well as close to interfaces. It is known that the structures formed by this...

The proposed research project is targeted to the investigation of the characteristics of eumelanin, a heterogeneous material insoluble in water and in any organic solvent, as...

Microemulsions are thermodynamically stable, low-viscous liquid mixtures of oil and water stabilised by the presence of surfactant, structurally composed of oil-in-water (O/W)...

We will perform neutron scattering experiments (SANS) to probe the mechanism of alignment of amyloid peptides on drying in the presence of a 2T magnetic field, as well as the...

This proposal aims use a novel approach whereby deuterated amyloid peptide fibrils are givenhydrogenated growing ends, and analysed using SANS. The data will enable us to...

Polyurethane foams (PUFs) are commonly prepared by mixing Pluronic type copolymers and isocyanate reactive monomers in the presence of additives e.g. catalysts, blowing agent...