Growth of silica-surfactant particles during surfactant-templated silica synthesis

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Surfactant templated silicates are formed by the polymerization of silica around surfactant micelles in solution. Our previous SANS experiments show development of the initial ellipsoidal micelles into bundles of hexagonally packed cylindrical micelles coated with silica, however due to the intrinsic limits in Q range in the small angle scattering technique we cannot follow the further growth of these particles in solution. The solutions are too concentrated for light scattering experiments, and the reaction pathway is concentration dependent so simply diluting the solutions will result in quite different self-assembly behaviour. The aim of these experiments is to use spin echo SANS (SESANS) to study the growth of surfactant templated silicas in acidic solutions in order to understand and thus control the solution processes that lead to development of different macroscopic morphologies.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079697
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079697
Provenance
Creator Professor Karen Edler; Mr Matthew Wasbrough
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
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 2010-05-08T11:05:17Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-05-11T08:16:15Z