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Facile Preparation of Internally Self-assembled Lipid Particles Stabilized by Carbon Nanotubes
Published on: February 19, 2016
Evidence for vesicle formation during the synthesis of catanionic templated mesoscopically ordered silica as studied
Svetlana Pevzner1, Oren Regev, Anna Lind
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Abstract:
The formation of vesicles during the synthesis of mesostructured surfactant-silicate materials has been evidenced for the first time by applying in situ Cryo-TEM. A mixture of anionic and cationic surfactants was used to fine-tune the packing parameter of the supramolecular surfactant assembly. It is shown that the vesicles are formed during the course of the reaction and suggested to be a consequence of silicate condensation reactions. Furthermore, the study confirms earlier suggestions that the silicate-surfactant micelles are capable of solubilizing hydrophobic additives during the early stages of the reaction.
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