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Tuneable interfacial surfactant aggregates mimic lyotropic phases and facilitate large scale nanopatterning
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Chemistry, Surface and Corrosion Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9197-4676
Inst Laue Langevin, 71 Ave Martyrs, F-38042 Grenoble, France..
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Chemistry, Surface and Corrosion Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9815-8329
Inst Laue Langevin, 71 Ave Martyrs, F-38042 Grenoble, France.;Univ Manchester, Div Pharm & Optometry, Manchester M21 9PT, Lancs, England..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6296-314X
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2021 (English)In: Nanoscale, ISSN 2040-3364, E-ISSN 2040-3372, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 371-379Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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It is shown that the air-liquid interface can be made to display the same rich curvature phenomena as common lyotropic liquid crystal systems. Through mixing an insoluble, naturally occurring, branched fatty acid, with an unbranched fatty acid of the same length, systematic variation in the packing constraints at the air-water interface could be obtained. The combination of atomic force microscopy and neutron reflectometry is used to demonstrate that the water surface exhibits significant tuneable topography. By systematic variation of the two fatty acid proportions, ordered arrays of monodisperse spherical caps, cylindrical sections, and a mesh phase are all observed, as well as the expected lamellar structure. The tuneable deformability of the air-water interface permits this hitherto unexplored topological diversity, which is analogous to the phase elaboration displayed by amphiphiles in solution. It offers a wealth of novel possibilities for the tailoring of nanostructure.

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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) , 2021. Vol. 13, no 1, p. 371-379
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-290461DOI: 10.1039/d0nr06621dISI: 000607350900036PubMedID: 33351024Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85099240874OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-290461DiVA, id: diva2:1553633
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