New surfactants forming anisotropic micelles and microemulsions in CO2

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An analogue of the popular surfactant AOT with isopropyl glycol tails (IG-AOT, Figure.1) has been recently designed as a co-surfactant for water-in-CO2 (w/c) systems: stable microemulsions are formed by mixing IG-AOT with a fluorinated surfactant nFG(EO)2 up to a significant water/surfactant molar ratio w=30. In a preliminary ISIS SANS experiment confirmed formation of elongated micelles at different pressures (Figure 2). Hence, since there are only few reports of similar systems in the literature , this new IG-AOT system deserves further study. Here, experiments are proposed to investigate the structure of IGAOTw/c microemulsions under a range of conditions, and therefore, the ability to act as a liquid CO2 viscosity modifier can be evaluated.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.60524689
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/60524689
Provenance
Creator Dr Gavin Hazell; Mr Craig Davies; Professor Julian Eastoe; Miss Jocelyn Peach; Mr Jonny Pegg; Dr Adam Czajka; Mr David Yan; Mr Miguel Hinojosa Navarro; 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 2015-04-28T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-05-01T08:00:00Z