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Hollamby, M, Eastoe, J, Mutch, KJ, Rogers, S and Heenan, RK (2010) Fluorinated microemulsions as reaction media for fluorous nanoparticles. Soft Matter, 6 (5). 971 -976.
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Abstract
New fluorinated microemulsions (F-MEs) formulated from partially fluorinated solvent–co-solvent mixtures and fluorinated anionic AOT-analogue surfactants are reported. These F-MEs permit incorporation of water into fluorinated solvents, up to a volume fraction ϕwater ≈ 0.13. Interestingly, phase behavior and structures, determined by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), parallel many other classical AOT-type microemulsions, both in normal hydrocarbon and in supercritical-CO2 (scCO2) solvents. Using these new F-MEs as reaction media, F-capped silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have been synthesized, representing the first reported preparation of F-NPs in fluorous phase microemulsions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry |
Divisions: | Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Physical and Geographical Sciences |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2014 15:01 |
Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2019 11:43 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/95 |