ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Alcohols in Cationic Surfactant Micelle Solutions

Abstract: This proposal continues our studies of water and small molecule binding around surfactant micelles using NIMROD, to obtain previously inaccessible details of their molecular interactions. Here we wish to study the effect of addition of small amounts of alcohols to the micellar solutions. Alcohols such as methanol and ethanol are typically generated by inorganic precursors, such as tetramethoxysilane, during the templating reaction with micelles used to form surfactant-templated mesoporous silicas. Alcohols have been implicated in altering the structure formed during templating since, for instance, different pore geometries are formed when the precursor generates ethanol vs methanol. Thus here we propose to study the alcohol-micelle structures for a series of short chain alcohols at ratios equivalent to those found in templated silica syntheses.

Principal Investigator: Professor Karen Edler
Experimenter: Dr Daniel Bowron
Experimenter: Dr Emelie Nilsson
Experimenter: Professor Viveka Alfredsson

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1510404

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1510404

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Data format: RAW/Nexus
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