SANS Study of the interaction of model wax alcohols with non-ionic surfactants at different temperatures

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The understanding of the plant wax-surfactant interaction process is crucial to the development of more effective pesticide and fungicide formulations, essential for improving food production whilst reducing environmental impact. It is widely recognised that the detergency actions of surfactants can can hugely influence the transport properties of both water and active ingredients through the waxy leaf surface, however the role of the different wax components is not well understood.The aim of this work is to study how long-chain alcohols and alkyl-esters (the main components that make up wheat and barley waxes) interact with non-ionic CnEm micelles. This study will enable us to determine how representative the alcohol and ester chains are of the reconstituted waxes as a whole and to observe the influence of these component chains upon the miceller shape and structure.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73940918
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73940918
Provenance
Creator Mr Ruiheng Li; Mr Elias Pambou; Mr Henry Cox; Dr Steve King; Professor Jian Lu; Dr Zongyi Li
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-02-22T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-02-24T09:00:00Z