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Published on: May 20, 2014
Confined microemulsions: pore diameter induced change of the phase behavior
René Haverkamp1, Margarethe Dahl2, Tim Julian Stank1
1Department of Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, University of Bielefeld Universitätsstraße 25 Bielefeld 33615 Germany thomas.hellweg@uni-bielefeld.de.
Abstract:
In the present work, the temperature-dependent phase behavior of a C10E4 based microemulsion is studied in different meso-macroporous glasses, as a function of their pore diameter. The phase behavior in these pores is investigated by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The crucial parameter we discuss based on the SAXS results is the domain size of the bicontinuous phase. Using a simplified model to fit the scattering data, we can observe the microemulsion inside the pores. These experiments reveal a temperature-dependent change in domain sizes of the bicontinuous microemulsion only for large pores.
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