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Probing the Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Published on: May 27, 2018
[Water structure in water/KDEHP-HDEHP/n-Heptane microemulsion by FTIR spectroscopy]
1State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, 100871 Beijing.
Abstract:
The structure of water in microemulsion is one of the basic subjects in the field of surface science. FTIR spectroscopy is considered as a powerful tool in the study on water structure. In this paper, we investigated water structure in the water/KDEHP (potassium bis (2-ethylhexyl) phosphate) -HDEHP/n-Heptane system. By using the Fourier self-deconvolution and curve-fitting method, the OH stretching band of water in the KDEHP-HDEHP microemulsion was resolved into four subpeaks which were tentatively assigned to absorbances of four different components of water. In order to explain the variations of peak positions of subpeaks with water content some probable hydration models of surfactants were proposed.
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