Uptake of pristine C60 into micelles formed by an alkyl-C60 hydrophobic amphiphile

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The ability of micelles of C60-containing hydrophobic amphiphiles to incorporate pristine C60 will be explored. Contrast variation SANS (CV-SANS) will be employed to fully characterise the structure of these complex fluids. This will answer a fundamental question regarding the extent to which hydrophobic amphiphiles possess properties similar to their classical counterparts: Classical surfactants can typically stabilise dispersions of two immiscible species (e.g. water in oil); hydrophobic amphiphiles have yet to be demonstrated to do so. SANS beam-time is therefore requested as the only viable way to reliably detect the nanoscale structures. The obtained results will greatly increase our understanding of alkyl-aromatic hydrophobic amphiphilicity. The use of ternary phases will also provide further means of control over the self-assembled structures.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58446407
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58446407
Provenance
Creator Dr Zoe Schnepp; Miss Beth Dobson; Dr Brian Pauw; Dr Melanie Britton; Mr Ashleigh Danks; Mr Matt Lloyd; Dr Martin Hollamby; Dr Sarah Rogers
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
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 Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-04-05T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-04-07T09:48:29Z