Co-surfactancy of oil-soluble and water-soluble surfactants at the oil-water interface

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A technique we have recently developed enables us to simply produce stable, homogenous and thin oil layers, using polymer surfactants, in a simple manner on water. These are suitable for neutron reflectometry directly at the oil-water interface. Deuterated mixed oil-soluble and water-soluble polymer-derived surfactants (respectively, polyisobutylene-derived, PIBSA, and polyacrlyamide-derived, PAM) will be studied at the air/water and oil/water interfaces. Combinations of PIBSA with PAMs of varying amphipathy will be studied as a function of applied surface pressure to examine their mixing, lateral segregation, aggregation and preferential dissolution into either the oil or the water phase. These measurements will complement X-ray reflectivity and SANS measurements on emulsions.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24026016
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24026016
Provenance
Creator Professor John White; Dr Duncan McGillivray
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2011
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2008-07-04T17:56:18Z
Temporal Coverage End 2008-07-07T08:59:05Z