Supercritical fluid swelling of liquid crystal films

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2008-05-30
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O'Callaghan, John M.
Copley, Mark P.
Hanrahan, John P.
Morris, Michael A.
Steytler, David C.
Heenan, Richard K.
Staudt, Reiner
Holmes, Justin D.
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American Chemical Society, ACS
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The influence of liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide and liquid propane on the structural properties of both ionic and nonionic surfactant-based liquid crystal films is discussed in this paper. Swelling of the films, measured using in situ small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), was found to be dependent on the solubility of the propane/carbon dioxide in the micelles of the respective liquid crystals. Additionally, under certain pressure conditions the structural properties of some of the films were observed to change, ultimately leading to a loss of order in the micellar arrays of the liquid crystals.
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Carbon dioxide , Carbon films , Colloids , Crystallography , Crystals , Effluent treatment , Industrial waste treatment , Light sources , Liquid crystals , Liquid films , Neutron scattering , Nonionic surfactants , Photoresists , Plastic films , Powders , Propane , Supercritical fluid extraction , Supercritical fluids , Surface active agents , Ionization of liquids
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O’Callaghan, J. M., Copley, M. P., Hanrahan, J. P., Morris, M. A., Steytler, D. C., Heenan, R. K., Staudt, R. and Holmes, J. D. (2008) 'Supercritical Fluid Swelling of Liquid Crystal Films', Langmuir, 24(13), pp. 6959-6964. doi: 10.1021/la800073t
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© 2008 American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Langmuir, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la800073t