Investigation of co-solvency and co-nonsolvency effects, based on the structure of water-alcohol mixture

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Co-solvency is a phenomenon where a small quantity of co-solvent is added to a bulk solvent to enhance the solubility of a desired solute in the mixture. Correspondingly, there is a second effect, co-nonsolvency, where a solute of interest, 2-(methacryloyloxy)ethylphosphorylcholine) (MPC) in this study, is soluble in either of the pure solvents used in a co-solvent mixture, but not in a mixture of specific compositional ratio. Despite much interest in these phenomena, there is currently little structural understanding of the in-solution molecular correlations that drives them. Here we propose to use H/D isotopic substitution neutron scattering methods to investigate the solution structure of ethanol-water-MPC at co-solvency/co-nonsolvency compositions to provide a baseline model of common media in which the effects take place.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42588080
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42588080
Provenance
Creator Dr Daniel Bowron; Dr Zhenyu Zhang; Professor Mark Geoghegan
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-09-17T19:17:39Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-09-24T07:39:15Z