Li, Xiaoyu; Jin, Bixin; Gao, Yang; Hayward, Dominic W.; Winnik, Mitchell A.; Luo, Yunjun; Manners, Ian
Monodisperse Cylindrical Micelles of Controlled Length with a Liquid-Crystalline Perfluorinated Core by 1D “Self-Seeding”
Precise control over the morphology and dimensions of block copolymer (BCP) micelles has attracted interest due to the potential of this approach to generate functional nanostructures. Incorporation of liquid crystalline (LC) block can provide additional ways to vary micellar morphologies, but the formation of uniform micelles with controllable dimensions from…
On the dissolution state of cellulose in aqueous tetrabutylammonium hydroxide solutions
Behrens, M. A.; Holdaway, J. A.; Nosrati, P.; Olsson, U.
We have characterized the dissolution state of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) in aqueous 40 wt% tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (TBAH) using a combination of light and small angle X-ray scattering, up to 0.1 g cm−3. In dilute solutions, cellulose–cellulose interactions are repulsive, as seen by a positive second virial coefficient. Above 0.04 g…
Adsorption of sodium dodecylsulfate on single-walled carbon nanotubes characterised using small-angle neutron scattering
Kastrisianaki-Guyton, E. S.; Chen, L.; Rogers, S. E.; Cosgrove, T.; van Duijneveldt, J. S.
Aqueous dispersions of single-walled carbon nanotubes are often made using sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS), which adsorbs to the nanotube surface to stabilise them. Despite SDS being commonly used with single-walled carbon nanotubes, there is no consensus on the structure of the adsorbed layer. Small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering results reported here…
Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Demonstrates Similar Nanostructure in Cortical Bone from Young Adult Animals of Different Species
Kaspersen, Jørn Døvling; Turunen, Mikael Juhani; Mathavan, Neashan; Lages, Sebastian; Pedersen, Jan Skov; Olsson, Ulf; Isaksson, Hanna
Despite the vast amount of studies focusing on bone nanostructure that have been performed for several decades, doubts regarding the detailed structure of the constituting hydroxyapatite crystal still exist. Different experimental techniques report somewhat different sizes and locations, possibly due to different requirements for the sample preparation. In this study,…
Complexes of PEO-PPO-PEO triblock copolymer P123 and bile salt sodium glycodeoxycholate in aqueous solution: A small angle X-ray and neutron scattering investigation
Bayati, Solmaz; Galantini, Luciano; Knudsen, Kenneth D.; Schillén, Karin
Small angle X-ray (SAXS) and neutron scattering techniques were combined to study mixed complexes formed between micelles of the nonionic amphiphilic PEO-PPO-PEO copolymer (P123) and the anionic bile salt (NaGDC) in aqueous solution. The purpose was to investigate the structural parameters of the charged complexes, such as size and internal…
Amphiphilic single and double networks: a small-angle X-ray scattering investigation
Zhang, Xiaohan; Kyriakos, Konstantinos; Rikkou-Kalourkoti, Maria; Kitiri, Elina N.; Patrickios, Costas S.; Papadakis, Christine M.
We investigated the microphase-separated morphologies of water-swollen amphiphilic single and double polymer networks using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The networks consist of (i) a first conetwork containing hydrophobic blocks from either 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate (EHMA) or lauryl methacylate (LauMA) and hydrophilic blocks from 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) and (ii) a…
Composite Hydrogels with Tunable Anisotropic Morphologies and Mechanical Properties
Chau, Mokit; De France, Kevin J.; Kopera, Bernd; Machado, Vanessa R.; Rosenfeldt, Sabine; Reyes, Laura; Chan, Katelyn J. W.; Förster, Stephan; Cranston, Emily D.; Hoare, Todd; Kumacheva, Eugenia
Fabrication of anisotropic hydrogels exhibiting direction-dependent structure and properties has attracted great interest in biomimicking, tissue engineering, and bioseparation. Herein, we report a freeze-casting-based fabrication of structurally and mechanically anisotropic aerogels and hydrogels composed of hydrazone cross-linked poly(oligoethylene glycol methacrylate) (POEGMA) and cellulose…
Monodisperse hollow silica spheres: An in-depth scattering analysis
Ruckdeschel, Pia; Dulle, Martin; Honold, Tobias; Förster, Stephan; Karg, Matthias; Retsch, Markus
Herein, we fabricate hollow silica nanoparticles with exceptionally narrow size distributions that inherently possess two distinct length scales—tens of nanometers with regards to the shell thickness, and hundreds of nanometers in regards to the total diameter. We characterize these structures using dynamic and static light scattering (DLS and SLS), small…
An investigation into the hexagonal phases formed in high-concentration dispersions of well-defined cylindrical block copolymer micelles
Hayward, D. W.; Whittell, G. R.; Gilroy, J. B.; Manners, I.; Richardson, R. M.
This paper presents a detailed analysis of the structure of the hexagonal phase of poly(ferrocenylsilane) (PFS)-based cylindrical micelles found at concentrations above ca. 5 wt. % in non-polar solvents such as decane. Small-angle X-ray scattering indicated that the hexagonal order is not long-range. In all samples, deviations in the lower…
Silicon Oxycarbide/Carbon Nanohybrids with Tiny Silicon Oxycarbide Particles Embedded in Free Carbon Matrix Based on Photoactive Dental Methacrylates
Wang, Meimei; Xia, Yonggao; Wang, Xiaoyan; Xiao, Ying; Liu, Rui; Wu, Qiang; Qiu, Bao; Metwalli, Ezzeldin; Xia, Senlin; Yao, Yuan; Chen, Guoxin; Liu, Yan; Liu, Zhaoping; Meng, Jian-Qiang; Yang, Zhaohui; Sun, Ling-Dong; Yan, Chun-Hua; Müller-Buschbaum, Peter; Pan, Jing; Cheng, Ya-Jun
A new facile scalable method has been developed to synthesize silicon oxycarbide (SiOC)/carbon nanohybrids using difunctional dental methacrylate monomers as solvent and carbon source and the silane coupling agent as the precursor for SiOC. The content (from 100% to 40% by mass) and structure (ratio of disordered carbon over ordered…