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ArticleJournal of applied crystallography2016

Small-angle scattering and morphologies of ultra-flexible microemulsions.

Sylvain Prevost, Tobias Lopian, Maximilian Pleines, Olivier Diat, Thomas Zemb

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Article in Journal of applied crystallography, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sylvain PrevostESRF - The European Synchrotron, 71 avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France.
Tobias LopianInstitut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM), UMR 5257 (CEA/CNRS/UM2/ENCSM), 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France; Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany.
Maximilian PleinesInstitut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM), UMR 5257 (CEA/CNRS/UM2/ENCSM), 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France; Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany.
Olivier DiatInstitut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM), UMR 5257 (CEA/CNRS/UM2/ENCSM), 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France.
Thomas ZembInstitut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM), UMR 5257 (CEA/CNRS/UM2/ENCSM), 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FREuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The phase diagrams of ternary mixtures of partly miscible solvents containing a hydrotropic co-solvent exhibit a variable miscibility gap and one critical point. This work investigates the entire monophasic region far from and near to the miscibility gap in octan-1-ol/ethanol/water, for which ultra-flexible micro-emulsions (UFMEs) are observed by small-angle scattering techniques. SWAXS (combined small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering) allows the elucidation of these types of structure. Three distinct areas can be identified in the phase diagram, with scattering data resembling those from direct, bicontinuous and reverse local structures. These UFMEs are far more polydisperse than their surfactant-based counterparts. Water-rich and solvent-rich domains are only delimited by a small excess of hydrotrope, instead of a well defined surfactant layer of fixed area per molecule. It is shown that all scattering spectra obtained for the nanostructured compositions can be modelled by a simple unified analytical model composed of two uncorrelated contributions. The main one is the Ornstein-Zernike formula for composition fluctuations which gives information about the pseudo-phase domain size. The second is a Lorentzian that captures the structure of at least one of the coexisting pseudo-phases. No Porod law can be measured in the SAXS domain. The proposed expression gives access to two characteristic sizes as well as one inter-aggregate distance.

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mesoscale solubilizationsmall-angle scattering (SAS)surfactant-free microemulsionsternary phase diagramsultra-flexible microemulsions

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PMID27980512
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