Interactions between a polymer brush grown from a macro-initiator-modified sapphire surface and an oppositely charged surfactant

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We propose to make neutron reflectivity measurements of the weak polyelectrolyte, poly(dimethy amino ethyl methacrylate), grown from two different surface densities of initiator group attached at the sapphire-water interface by adsorbed macro-initiator molecules. We will change the charge of the polyelectrolyte by measuring at pH3 and pH9 and will consider how these layers interact with sodium dodecyl sulphate. In particular, we are looking to see if the multilayer structures formed at the air-water interface will assemble at the solid-water interface. By measuring in two contrasts, we will be able to determine the distribution of both the polymer segments and the surfactant. We have slowed the polymerization down sufficiently, to make an in-situ kinetic measurement of the growth by neutron reflectivity feasible, and we plan to make the first such measurement.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24003204
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24003204
Provenance
Creator Mr Mauro Moglianetti; Dr Simon Titmuss
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
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2007-10-24T08:02:47Z
Temporal Coverage End 2008-02-10T09:02:03Z