Nanoparticle-surfactant layers at the water-oil interface

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The spontaneous selfassembly of nanoparticles (NP) at liquid-liquid interfaces is a phenomenon present in nature and relevant for many applications, such as, emulsion technology, nanostructured materials, nanoencapsulation, separative processes, food technologies, etc. The driving force for NP self-assembly at a liquid interface is their amphiphilic character, but NPs often lack this feature. In order to exploit such phenomena in applications, the adsorption of suitable surfactants at the NP surface is particularly attractive. We propose to use neutron reflectivity to study the structure of these mixed NP-surfactant at the oil/water IF to achieve a detailed control of their properties and functionality in applications. One can expect significant differences in the re-arrangement of the surfactant within the layer,which in turn influences the macroscopic equilibrium and kinetic features.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84795006
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84795006
Provenance
Creator Dr Libero Liggieri; Dr Francesca Ravera; Dr Davide Orsi; Dr Mario Campana; Dr Eva Santini; Professor Luigi Cristofolini; Dr Sara Llamas
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
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 Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-11T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-15T09:00:00Z