Spontaneous surfactant multilayer formation at interfaces induced by multivalent counterions

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The spontaneous formation of multilayer structures at interfaces from surfactant self-assembly is now emerging as an important structural signature associated with a wide range of technological applications and biological function. Neutron reflectivity, NR, has proved to be an ideal probe of such interfacial structures, and is largely responsible for the raised awareness of their existence and potential. This proposal is part of a major programme (supported by the EPSRC, EP/GR065705, and Unilever) to characterise such structures and to determine the major factors with control their formation, in surfactant mixtures and in polymer / surfactant mixtures. We request here beam time on INTER/SURF to extend our study of the formation of multilayer structures at the air-solution interface in surfactant and mixed surfactant systems, induced by the addition of multivalent counterions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088020
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088020
Provenance
Creator Professor Jeff Penfold; Dr Bob Thomas; Dr Hui Xu; Dr Ian Tucker; Dr Jordan Petkov; Dr Hamdan Suhaimi; Dr Sara Fuertes Lorda; Mr Tom Robinson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-10-11T07:53:47Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-10-17T04:59:48Z