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Le Brun AP, Gilbert EP. Advances in sample environments for neutron scattering for colloid and interface science. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 327:103141. [PMID: 38631095 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2024.103141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2023] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
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This review describes recent advances in sample environments across the full complement of applicable neutron scattering techniques to colloid and interface science. Temperature, pressure, flow, tensile testing, ultrasound, chemical reactions, IR/visible/UV light, confinement, humidity and electric and magnetic field application, as well as tandem X-ray methods, are all addressed. Consideration for material choices in sample environments and data acquisition methods are also covered as well as discussion of current and potential future use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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- Anton P Le Brun
- Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), New Illawarra Road, Lucas Heights, NSW 2234, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), New Illawarra Road, Lucas Heights, NSW 2234, Australia.
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Alexander S, Barron AR, Denkov N, Grassia P, Kiani S, Sagisaka M, Shojaei MJ, Shokri N. Foam Generation and Stability: Role of the Surfactant Structure and Asphaltene Aggregates. Ind Eng Chem Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c03450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Shirin Alexander
- Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI), Swansea University, Bay Campus, Swansea SA1 8EN, U.K
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- Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI), Swansea University, Bay Campus, Swansea SA1 8EN, U.K
- Arizona Institutes of Resilience (AIR), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan BE1410, Brunei Darussalam
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, 1 James Bourchier Avenue, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XJ, U.K
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- Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI), Swansea University, Bay Campus, Swansea SA1 8EN, U.K
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BX, U.K
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- Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics, Hamburg University of Technology, Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 3 (E), 21073 Hamburg, Germany
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Ren HR, Xu QQ, Yin JZ. Microscopic properties and stabilization mechanism of a supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion with extremely high water content. J Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 607:1953-1962. [PMID: 34695744 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.09.188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2021] [Revised: 09/28/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS Developing the supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion with a broad water content (W0) window can provide more possibility for designing highly efficient chemical processes, which is challenging due to the lack of comprehension about its formation mechanism. Molecular dynamics simulation method is expected to reveal the microscopic stabilization mechanism of high-W0 microemulsions. SIMULATIONS All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of the ternary systems with varied W0 stabilized by 4FG(EO)2 surfactant were designed according to phase behavior experiments. A systematic investigation was performed concerning the self-assembling, equilibrium morphology and detailed microstructure of the microemulsion droplet. An in-depth comparative study about the distribution of both H2O and CO2, the interfacial behaviors of 4FG(EO)2, as well as the microscopic interactions was conducted. FINDINGS For the first time, direct evidence was provided for the formation of water-in-carbon dioxide microemulsion with extremely high W0 (80) under the effect of 4FG(EO)2. Furthermore, a unique interfacial phenomenon, i. e. CO2 accumulating at the interface, was revealed to be responsible for the formation and enhanced stability of the nanosized droplet with high W0. This should set a new guiding star for synthesizing and selecting effective interfacial modifiers to create high-W0 microemulsions.
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- Hong-Rui Ren
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemical, School of Chemical Machinery, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemical, School of Chemical Machinery, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemical, School of Chemical Machinery, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
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Hill C, Umetsu Y, Fujita K, Endo T, Sato K, Yoshizawa A, Rogers SE, Eastoe J, Sagisaka M. Design of Surfactant Tails for Effective Surface Tension Reduction and Micellization in Water and/or Supercritical CO 2. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:14829-14840. [PMID: 33228361 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The interfacial properties and water-in-CO2 (W/CO2) microemulsion (μE) formation with double- and novel triple-tail surfactants bearing trimethylsilyl (TMS) groups in the tails are investigated. Comparisons of these properties are made with those for analogous hydrocarbon (HC) and fluorocarbon (FC) tail surfactants. Surface tension measurements allowed for critical micelle concentrations (CMC) and surface tensions at the CMC (γCMC) to be determined, resulting in the following trend in surface activity FC > TMS > HC. Addition of a third surfactant tail gave rise to increased surface activity, and very low γCMC values were recorded for the double/triple-tail TMS and HC surfactants. Comparing effective tail group densities (ρlayer) of the respective surfactants allowed for an understanding of how γCMC is affected by both the number of surfactant tails and the chemistry of the tails. These results highlight the important role of tail group chemical structure on ρlayer for double-tail surfactants. For triple-tail surfactants, however, the degree to which ρlayer is affected by tail group architecture is harder to discern due to formation of highly dense layers. Stable W/CO2 μEs were formed by both the double- and the triple-tail TMS surfactants. High-pressure small-angle neutron scattering (HP-SANS) has been used to characterize the nanostructures of W/CO2 μEs formed by the double- and triple-tail surfactants, and at constant pressure and temperature, the aqueous cores of the microemulsions were found to swell with increasing water-to-surfactant ratio (W0). A maximum W0 value of 25 was recorded for the triple-tail TMS surfactant, which is very rare for nonfluorinated surfactants. These data therefore highlight important parameters required to design fluorine-free environmentally responsible surfactants for stabilizing W/CO2 μEs.
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- Christopher Hill
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- ISIS-CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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Zhu H, Li Y, Zhou D, Xu Q, Yin J. Molecular dynamics study on microstructure of supercritical CO2 microemulsions containing ionic liquids. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Sagisaka M, Saito T, Abe M, Yoshizawa A, Blesic M, Rogers SE, Alexander S, Guittard F, Hill C, Eastoe J. Water-in-CO 2 Microemulsions Stabilized by an Efficient Catanionic Surfactant. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:7418-7426. [PMID: 32532155 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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To facilitate potential applications of water-in-supercritical CO2 microemulsions (W/CO2 μEs) efficient and environmentally responsible surfactants are required with low levels of fluorination. As well as being able to stabilize water-CO2 interfaces, these surfactants must also be economical, prevent bioaccumulation and strong adhesion, deactivation of enzymes, and be tolerant to high salt environments. Recently, an ion paired catanionic surfactant with environmentally acceptable fluorinated C6 tails was found to be very effective at stabilizing W/CO2 μEs with high water-to-surfactant molar ratios (W0) up to ∼50 (Sagisaka, M.; et al. Langmuir 2019, 35, 3445-3454). As the cationic and anionic constituent surfactants alone did not stabilize W/CO2 μEs, this was the first demonstration of surfactant synergistic effects in W/CO2 microemulsions. The aim of this new study is to understand the origin of these intriguing effects by detailed investigations of nanostructure in W/CO2 microemulsions using high-pressure small-angle neutron scattering (HP-SANS). These HP-SANS experiments have been used to determine the headgroup interfacial area and volume, aggregation number, and effective packing parameter (EPP). These SANS data suggest the effectiveness of this surfactant originates from increased EPP and decreased hydrophilic/CO2-philic balance, related to a reduced effective headgroup ionicity. This surfactant bears separate C6F13 tails and oppositely charged headgroups, and was found to have a EPP value similar to that of a double C4F9-tail anionic surfactant (4FG(EO)2), which was previously reported to be one of most efficient stabilizers for W/CO2 μEs (maximum W0 = 60-80). Catanionic surfactants based on this new design will be key for generating superefficient W/CO2 μEs with high stability and water solubilization.
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- Masanobu Sagisaka
- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, U.K
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- ISIS-CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K
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- Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI), Swansea University, Bay Campus, Swansea SA1 8EN, U.K
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- NICE-Lab, Université Côte d'Azur, 61-63 avenue S. Viel, 06200 Nice, France
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K
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Stabilization of 4FS(EO)2 constructed water-in-carbon dioxide microemulsions (W/C μEs) with nonfluorinated co-surfactants. J Supercrit Fluids 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2019.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Sagisaka M, Saito T, Yoshizawa A, Rogers SE, Guittard F, Hill C, Eastoe J, Blesic M. Water-in-CO 2 Microemulsions Stabilized by Fluorinated Cation-Anion Surfactant Pairs. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:3445-3454. [PMID: 30739456 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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High-water-content water-in-supercritical CO2 (W/CO2) microemulsions are considered to be green, universal solvents, having both polar and nonpolar domains. Unfortunately, these systems generally require environmentally unacceptable stabilizers like long and/or multifluorocarbon-tail surfactants. Here, a series of catanionic surfactants having more environmentally friendly fluorinated C4-C6 tails have been studied in terms of interfacial properties, aggregation behavior, and solubilizing power in water and/or CO2. Surface tensions and critical micelle concentrations of these catanionic surfactants are, respectively, lowered by ∼9 mN/m and 100 times than those of the constituent single fluorocarbon-tail surfactants. Disklike micelles in water were observed above the respective critical micelle concentrations, implying the catanionic surfactants have a high critical packing parameter, which should be suitable for the formation of reverse micelles. Based on visual observation of phase behavior and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic and small-angle neutron scattering studies, one of the three catanionic surfactants tested was found to form transparent single-phase W/CO2 microemulsions with a water-to-surfactant molar ratio of up to ∼50. This is the first successful demonstration of the formation of W/CO2 microemulsions by synergistic ion-pairing of anionic and cationic single-tail surfactants. This indicates that catanionic surfactants offer a promising approach to generate high-water-content W/CO2 microemulsions.
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- Masanobu Sagisaka
- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology , Hirosaki University , 3 Bunkyo-cho , Hirosaki , Aomori 036-8561 , Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology , Hirosaki University , 3 Bunkyo-cho , Hirosaki , Aomori 036-8561 , Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology , Hirosaki University , 3 Bunkyo-cho , Hirosaki , Aomori 036-8561 , Japan
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- ISIS-CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Chilton OX11 0QX , Oxon , U.K
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- Univ. Cote d'Azur, NICE-Lab , 61-63 av. S. Viel , 06200 Nice , France
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- School of Chemistry , University of Bristol , Cantock's Close , Bristol BS8 1TS , U.K
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- School of Chemistry , University of Bristol , Cantock's Close , Bristol BS8 1TS , U.K
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Queen's University Belfast , University Road , Belfast BT7 1NN , U.K
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Sagisaka M, Ono S, James C, Yoshizawa A, Mohamed A, Guittard F, Enick RM, Rogers SE, Czajka A, Hill C, Eastoe J. Anisotropic reversed micelles with fluorocarbon-hydrocarbon hybrid surfactants in supercritical CO 2. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2018; 168:201-210. [PMID: 29276082 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2017.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2017] [Revised: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 12/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Previous work (M. Sagisaka, et al. Langmuir 31 (2015) 7479-7487), showed the most effective fluorocarbon (FC) and hydrocarbon (HC) chain lengths in the hybrid surfactants FCm-HCn (sodium 1-oxo-1-[4-(perfluoroalkyl)phenyl]alkane-2-sulfonates, where m = FC length and n = HC length) were m and n = 6 and 4 for water solubilization, whereas m 6 and n 6, or m 6 and n 5, were optimal chain lengths for reversed micelle elongation in supercritical CO2. To clarify why this difference of only a few methylene chain units is so effective at tuning the solubilizing power and reversed micelle morphology, nanostructures of water-in-CO2 (W/CO2) microemulsions were investigated by high-pressure small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements at different water-to-surfactant molar ratios (W0) and surfactant concentrations. By modelling SANS profiles with cylindrical and ellipsoidal form factors, the FC6-HCn/W/CO2 microemulsions were found to increase in size with increasing W0 and surfactant concentration. Ellipsoidal cross-sectional radii of the FC6-HC4/W/CO2 microemulsion droplets increased linearly with W0, and finally reached ∼39 Å and ∼78 Å at W0 = 85 (close to the upper limit of solubilizing power). These systems appear to be the largest W/CO2 microemulsion droplets ever reported. The aqueous domains of FC6-HC6 rod-like reversed micelles increased in size by 3.5 times on increasing surfactant concentration from 35 mM to 50 mM: at 35 mM, FC6-HC5 formed rod-like reversed micelles 5.3 times larger than FC6-HC6. Interestingly, these results suggest that hybrid HC-chains partition into the microemulsion aqueous cores with the sulfonate headgroups, or at the W/CO2 interfaces, and so play important roles for tuning the W/CO2 interfacial curvature. The super-efficient W/CO2-type solubilizer FC6-HC4, and the rod-like reversed micelle forming surfactant FC6-HC5, represent the most successful cases of low fluorine content additives. These surfactants facilitate VOC-free, effective and energy-saving CO2 solvent systems for applications such as extraction, dyeing, dry cleaning, metal-plating, enhanced oil recovery and organic/inorganic or nanomaterial synthesis.
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- Masanobu Sagisaka
- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan.
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia; Nanotechnology Research Centre, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 940 Benedum Hall, 3700 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- ISIS-CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.
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Enhancement of the CO2-philicity of poly(vinyl ester)s by end-group modification with branched chains. J Supercrit Fluids 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2017.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sagisaka M, Ogiwara S, Ono S, James C, Yoshizawa A, Mohamed A, Rogers SE, Heenan RK, Yan C, Peach JA, Eastoe J. New Class of Amphiphiles Designed for Use in Water-in-Supercritical CO 2 Microemulsions. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:12413-12422. [PMID: 27448717 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b01670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Water-in-supercritical CO2 microemulsions formed using the hybrid F-H surfactant sodium 1-oxo-1-[4-(perfluorohexyl)phenyl]hexane-2-sulfonate, FC6-HC4, have recently been shown to have the highest water-solubilizing power ever reported. FC6-HC4 demonstrated the ability to outperform not only other surfactants but also other FCm-HCn analogues containing different fluorocarbon and hydrocarbon chain lengths (Sagisaka, M. et al. Langmuir 2015, 31, 7479-7487). With the aim of clarifying the key structural features of this surfactant, this study examined the phase behavior and water/supercritical CO2 aggregate formation of 1-oxo-1-[4-(perfluorohexyl)phenyl]hexane (Nohead FC6-HC4), which is an FC6-HC4 analogue but now, interestingly, without the sulfonate headgroup. Surprisingly, Nohead FC6-HC4, which would not normally be identified as a classic surfactant, yielded transparent single-phase W/CO2 microemulsions with polar cores able to solubilize a water-soluble dye, even at pressures and temperatures so low as to approach the critical point of CO2 (e.g., ∼100 bar at 35 °C). High-pressure small-angle scattering (SANS) measurements revealed the transparent phases to consist of ellipsoidal nanodroplets of water. The morphology of these droplets was shown to be dependent on the pressure, Nohead FC6-HC4 concentration, and water-to-surfactant molar ratio. Despite having almost the same structure as Nohead FC6-HC4, analogues containing both shorter and longer hydrocarbons were unable to form W/CO2 microemulsion droplets. This shows the importance of the role of the hydrocarbon chain in the stabilization of W/CO2 microemulsions. A detailed examination of the mechanism of Nohead FC6-HC4 adsorption onto the water surface suggests that the hexanoyl group protrudes into the aqueous core, allowing for association between the carbonyl group and water.
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- Masanobu Sagisaka
- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University , 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University , 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University , 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University , 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University , 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- ISIS-CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Chilton, Oxon OX11 0QX, U.K
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- ISIS-CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Chilton, Oxon OX11 0QX, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol , Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol , Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol , Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K
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Liu B, Tang X, Fang W, Li X, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Shen Y, Yan Y, Sun X, He J. Molecular dynamics study of di-CF4 based reverse micelles in supercritical CO 2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:29156-29163. [PMID: 27730238 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp04253h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Reverse micelles (RMs) in supercritical CO2 (scCO2) are promising alternatives for organic solvents, especially when both polar and non-polar components are involved. Fluorinated surfactants, particularly double-chain fluorocarbon surfactants, are able to form well-structured RMs in scCO2. The inherent self-assembly mechanisms of surfactants in scCO2 are still subject to discussion. In this study, molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate the self-aggregation behavior of di-CF4 based RMs in scCO2, and stable and spherical RMs are formed. The dynamics process and the self-assembly structure in the RMs reveal a three-step mechanism to form the RMs, that is, small RMs, rod-like RMs and fusion of the rod-like RMs. Hydrogen-bonds between headgroups and water molecules, and salt bridges linking Na+ ions, headgroups and water molecules enhance the interfacial packing efficiency of the surfactant. The results show that di-CF4 molecules have a high surfactant coverage at the RM interface, implying a high CO2-philicity. This mainly results from bending of the short chain (C-COO-CH2-(CF2)3-CF3) due to the flexible carboxyl group. The microscopic insight provided in this study is helpful in understanding surfactant self-assembly phenomena and designing new CO2-philic surfactants.
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- Bing Liu
- School of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China. and NTNU Nanomechanical Lab, Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, 7491, Norway.
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- School of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.
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- School of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.
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- School of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.
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- School of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.
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- NTNU Nanomechanical Lab, Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, 7491, Norway.
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- School of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.
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- School of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.
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- School of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.
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- NTNU Nanomechanical Lab, Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, 7491, Norway.
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Mohamed A, Ardyani T, Bakar SA, Sagisaka M, Ono S, Narumi T, Kubota M, Brown P, Eastoe J. Effect of surfactant headgroup on low-fluorine-content CO2-philic hybrid surfactants. J Supercrit Fluids 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2016.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Wang JS, Wai CM, Yak HK, Chiu KH. Influence of the characteristics of a water-in-CO 2 microemulsion on the separation of metal species. SEP SCI TECHNOL 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/01496395.2016.1185443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung Li, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Chemistry, National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC
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Noirjean C, Testard F, Dejugnat C, Jestin J, Carriere D. Molten fatty acid based microemulsions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:15911-8. [PMID: 27241163 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp00533k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We show that ternary mixtures of water (polar phase), myristic acid (MA, apolar phase) and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB, cationic surfactant) studied above the melting point of myristic acid allow the preparation of microemulsions without adding a salt or a co-surfactant. The combination of SANS, SAXS/WAXS, DSC, and phase diagram determination allows a complete characterization of the structures and interactions between components in the molten fatty acid based microemulsions. For the different structures characterized (microemulsion, lamellar or hexagonal phases), a similar thermal behaviour is observed for all ternary MA/CTAB/water monophasic samples and for binary MA/CTAB mixtures without water: crystalline myristic acid melts at 52 °C, and a thermal transition at 70 °C is assigned to the breaking of hydrogen bounds inside the mixed myristic acid/CTAB complex (being the surfactant film in the ternary system). Water determines the film curvature, hence the structures observed at high temperature, but does not influence the thermal behaviour of the ternary system. Myristic acid is partitioned in two "species" that behave independently: pure myristic acid and myristic acid associated with CTAB to form an equimolar complex that plays the role of the surfactant film. We therefore show that myristic acid plays the role of a solvent (oil) and a co-surfactant allowing the fine tuning of the structure of oil and water mixtures. This solvosurfactant behaviour of long chain fatty acid opens the way for new formulations with a complex structure without the addition of any extra compound.
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- Cecile Noirjean
- LIONS, NIMBE, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Sagisaka M, Ono S, James C, Yoshizawa A, Mohamed A, Guittard F, Rogers SE, Heenan RK, Yan C, Eastoe J. Effect of Fluorocarbon and Hydrocarbon Chain Lengths in Hybrid Surfactants for Supercritical CO2. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:7479-87. [PMID: 26080002 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b01737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Hybrid surfactants containing both fluorocarbon (FC) and hydrocarbon (HC) chains have recently been shown to solubilize water and form elongated reversed micelles in supercritical CO2. To clarify the most effective FC and HC chain lengths, the aggregation behavior and interfacial properties of hybrid surfactants FCm-HCn (FC length m/HC length n = 4/2, 4/4, 6/2, 6/4, 6/5, 6/6, and 6/8) were examined in W/CO2 mixtures as functions of pressure, temperature, and water-to-surfactant molar ratio (W0). The solubilizing power of hybrid surfactants for W/CO2 microemulsions was strongly affected by not only the FC length but also by that of the HC. Although the surfactants having short FC and/or HC tails (namely, m/n = 4/2, 4/4, and 6/2) did not dissolve in supercritical CO2 (even at ∼17 mM, ≤400 bar, temperature ≤ 75 °C, and W0 = 0-40), the other hybrid surfactants were able to yield transparent single-phase W/CO2 mixtures identified as microemulsions. The solubilizing power of FC6-HCm surfactants reached a maximum (W0 ∼ 80 at 45 °C and 350 bar) with a hydrocarbon length, m, of 4. The W0 value of 80 is the highest for a HC-FC hybrid surfactant, matching the highest value reported for a FC surfactant which contained more FC groups. High-pressure small-angle neutron scattering measurements from FCm-HCn/D2O/CO2 microemulsions were consistent with growth of the microemulsion droplets with increasing W0. In addition, not only spherical reversed micelles but also nonspherical assemblies (rodlike or ellipsoidal) were found for the systems with FC6-HCn (n = 4-6). At fixed surfactant concentration and W0 (17 mM and W0 = 20), the longest reversed micelles were obtained for FC6-HC6 where a mean aspect ratio of 6.3 was calculated for the aqueous cores.
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- Masanobu Sagisaka
- †Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- †Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- †Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- †Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- ∥Univ. Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Equipe Surfaces et Interfaces, Parc Valrose, 06100 Nice, France
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- ⊥ISIS-CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- ⊥ISIS-CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- #School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- #School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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Economical and Efficient Hybrid Surfactant with Low Fluorine Content for the Stabilisation of Water-in-CO2 Microemulsions. J Supercrit Fluids 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2015.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Nagashima M, Tsukamoto T, Shimada T, Tryk DA, Takagi S, Inoue H. Microstructure and the Mobility of Fluorinated Carbon Chain of Reversed Micelles Formed by Cationic Polyfluorinated Surfactant. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2014. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20140227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Minoru Nagashima
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate Course of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate Course of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate Course of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Tokyo Metropolitan University
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate Course of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Tokyo Metropolitan University
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate Course of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Tokyo Metropolitan University
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Peach J, Eastoe J. Supercritical carbon dioxide: a solvent like no other. Beilstein J Org Chem 2014; 10:1878-95. [PMID: 25246947 PMCID: PMC4168859 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.10.196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2014] [Accepted: 07/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) could be one aspect of a significant and necessary movement towards green chemistry, being a potential replacement for volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Unfortunately, carbon dioxide has a notoriously poor solubilising power and is famously difficult to handle. This review examines attempts and breakthroughs in enhancing the physicochemical properties of carbon dioxide, focusing primarily on factors that impact solubility of polar and ionic species and attempts to enhance scCO2 viscosity.
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- Jocelyn Peach
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, U.K
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James C, Hatzopoulos MH, Yan C, Smith GN, Alexander S, Rogers SE, Eastoe J. Shape transitions in supercritical CO2 microemulsions induced by hydrotropes. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:96-102. [PMID: 24364680 DOI: 10.1021/la404144a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The ability to induce morphological transitions in water-in-oil (w/o) and water-in-CO2 (w/c) microemulsions stabilized by a trichain anionic surfactant 1,4-bis(neopentyloxy)-3-(neopentyloxycarbonyl)-1,4-dioxobutane-2-sulfonate (TC14) with simple hydrotrope additives has been investigated. High-pressure small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) has revealed the addition of a small mole fraction of hydrotrope can yield a significant elongation in the microemulsion water droplets. For w/o systems, the degree of droplet growth was shown to be dependent on the water content, the hydrotrope mole fraction, and chemical structure, whereas for w/c microemulsions a similar, but less significant, effect was seen. The expected CO2 viscosity increase from such systems has been calculated and compared to related literature using fluorocarbon chain surfactants. This represents the first report of hydrotrope-induced morphology changes in w/c microemulsions and is a significant step forward toward the formation of hydrocarbon worm-like micellar assemblies in this industrially relevant solvent.
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- Craig James
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol , Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K
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Shang W, Zhang X, Yang X, Zhang S. High pressure CO2-controlled reactors: enzymatic chiral resolution in emulsions. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra02131b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Chiral separation of ibuprofen catalyzed by enzyme conducted in CO2-based micelle makes the reaction more effective and greener.
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- Wenting Shang
- Department of Chemistry
- Renmin University of China
- Beijing, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Renmin University of China
- Beijing, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Renmin University of China
- Beijing, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Renmin University of China
- Beijing, P.R. China
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