ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

SANS study of the interaction of model plant leaf waxes with non-ionic surfactants

Abstract: 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 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 in the reconstituted waxes and to observe the influence of these component chains upon the miceller shape and structure through solubilisation.

Principal Investigator: Professor Jian Lu
Local Contact: Dr Steve King
Experimenter: Dr Peixun Li
Experimenter: Dr Xuzhi Hu
Experimenter: Mr Ruiheng Li
Experimenter: Dr Zongyi Li
Experimenter: Mr Huayang Liu
Experimenter: Dr Meiwen Cao
Local Contact: Dr James Doutch

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1810241

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1810241

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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