2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Morphology of lamellar domain structure in a surfactant aqueous solution
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21740314
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Biophysics/Chemical physics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | ソフトマターの物理 |
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| Research Abstract |
In a nonionic surfactant aqueous solution, we have investigated the morphology and the formation mechanism of the giant lamellar structures which are formed with crystallization of the hydrophobic group of a surfactant molecule inμm scale, by means of optical microscope, X-ray diffraction and light scattering. We have found that the structure of hydrophilic parts of a surfactant molecule contributes to the formation of the domain morphologies, and that a relatively stable disk-like domain in the case of large head area of the surfactant gradually becomes spherical vesicles because of the unstable structure of its edge part.
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Research Products
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