Controlling interfacial film formation in mixed polymer-surfactant systems by changing the vapor phase.
Controlling interfacial film formation in mixed polymer-surfactant systems by changing the vapor phase.
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通过改变气相来控制混合聚合物-表面活性剂体系中界面膜的形成。
DOI:
10.1021/la5010825
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发表时间:
2014
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通讯作者:
Mokhtari T
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作者:
Mokhtari T
Here we show that transport-generated phase separation at the air–liquid interface in systems containing self-assembling amphiphilic molecules and polymers can be controlled by the relative humidity (RH) of the air. We also show that our observations can be described quantitatively with a theoretical model describing interfacial phase separation in a water gradient that we published previously. These phenomena arises from the fact that the water chemical potential corresponding to the ambient RH will, in general, not match the water chemical potential in the open aqueous solution. This implies nonequilibrium conditions at the air–water interface, which in turn can have consequences on the molecular organization in this layer. The experimental setup is such that we can control the boundary conditions in RH and thereby verify the predictions from the theoretical model. The polymer–surfactant systems studied here are composed of polyethylenimine (PEI) and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) or didecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB). Grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering results show that interfacial phases with hexagonal or lamellar structure form at the interface of dilute polymer–surfactant micellar solutions. From spectroscopic ellipsometry data we conclude that variations in RH can be used to control the growth of micrometer-thick interfacial films and that reducing RH leads to thicker films. For the CTAB–PEI system, we compare the phase behavior of the interfacial phase to the equilibrium bulk phase behavior. The interfacial film resembles the bulk phases formed at high surfactant to polymer ratio and reduced water contents, and this can be used to predict the composition of interfacial phase. We also show that convection in the vapor phase strongly reduces film formation, likely due to reduction of the unstirred layer, where diffusive transport is dominating.
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DOI:
10.1021/la063004b
发表时间:
2007
期刊:
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
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发表时间:
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