Synthesis and phase characterization of a double-tailed pyrrole-containing surfactant : a novel tecton for the production of functional nanostructured materials

A double-tailed polymerizable (pyrrolylalkyl) ammonium amphiphile has been synthesized, and its interfacial properties and aqueous phase behavior have been studied by polarized optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction. The Krafft temperature is about 27 degrees C, and the critical micelle concentrat...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 21(2005), 7 vom: 29. März, Seite 2704-12
1. Verfasser: Franke, Danielle (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Egger, Chrystelle C, Smarsly, Bernd, Faul, Charl F J, Tiddy, Gordon J T
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2005
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:A double-tailed polymerizable (pyrrolylalkyl) ammonium amphiphile has been synthesized, and its interfacial properties and aqueous phase behavior have been studied by polarized optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction. The Krafft temperature is about 27 degrees C, and the critical micelle concentration at 40 degrees C is about 1 mM, as obtained from surface tension measurements, potentiometry, and isothermal titration calorimetry. The lyotropic behavior of the surfactant is found to be of a complex nature. At concentrations higher than the micellar (L1) region, two mesophases have been identified: a second isotropic (L2) phase, which is probably micellar but not fully miscible with water, and a lamellar (L(alpha)) phase, showing interesting alignment properties. Small-angle X-ray scattering analysis of the mesophases has been evaluated in terms of a model of spherical micelles, which describes a mutual arrangement by a structure factor derived from a hard-sphere potential (Percus-Yevick, "PY", approach). Interest in the comprehensive phase behavior of the polymerizable surfactant is based on the desire to integrate the system into a composite material to obtain potentially conducting self-assembled hybrid mesostructures
Beschreibung:Date Completed 14.06.2006
Date Revised 22.03.2005
published: Print
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1520-5827