Nanostructures of Surfactants at Solid-Liquid and Gas-Liquid Interfaces and their Influence on Interfacial Properties

0227583 Miller该奖项使Jan米勒教授和犹他州大学冶金工程系的几名研究生能够与澳大利亚新南威尔士州纽卡斯尔大学的Anh Nguyen博士及其团队积极合作。 他们联合研究的重点是表面活性剂在固液和气液界面的自组装，以及这些自组装的纳米结构如何改变界面性质。 他们正在开发表面活性剂自组装的定量模型，并将通过实验进行测试。它们还将确定相关的界面特性，这些特性将影响某些工业过程，如晶片清洗和矿物加工。 该合作研究利用了主要研究人员在界面特性和颗粒相互作用（纽卡斯尔）以及原子力显微镜原位纳米结构成像和表面力测量等技术（犹他州）方面的互补研究专长。他们计划的研究可能有助于粒子科学和表面化学领域，为更好地控制界面特性提供基础，从而为改善基于表面化学的工业过程提供手段。

0227583MillerThis award enables Professor Jan Miller and several graduate students of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering of the University of Utah to collaborate actively with Dr. Anh Nguyen and his group at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The focus of their joint research is the self-assembly of surfactants at solid-liquid and gas-liquid interfaces and how these self-assembled nanostructures change interfacial properties. They are developing quantitative models for the self-assembly of surfactants which they will test experimentally. They will also determine the associated interfacial properties that would influence some industrial processes such as wafer cleaning and minerals processing. The collaborative research exploits the complementary research expertise of the principle investigators in interfacial properties and particle interactions (Newcastle) and in-situ nanostructure imaging and surface force measurements by Atomic Force Microscopy, among other techniques (Utah). Their planned research is likely to contribute to the fields of particle science and surface chemistry by providing the basis for greater control over interfacial properties and thereby a means for improving surface chemistry-based industrial processes.