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Published on: August 3, 2021
Microscopic investigation on morphologies of bilayer gel structure in the mixed polyoxyethylene-type nonionic
Yuko Nagai1, Youhei Kawabata, Tadashi Kato
1Kao Corporation, 2-1-3 Bunka, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-8501, Japan. nagai.yuko@kao.co.jp
Abstract:
We investigated morphologies of lamellar domains below the Krafft temperature in the mixed polyoxyethylene-type nonionic surfactant, a C(16)E(6)/C(16)E(7)/water system, by using optical microscopy, confocal microscopy, small/wide-angle X-ray scattering, and small-angle neutron scattering. We have found that the morphology discontinuously changes from network structures of lamellar domains to spherical vesicles with increasing mole fraction of C(16)E(7), via the coexistence region of vesicles and network structures of lamellar domains.
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