PMID- 28726882
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180205
LR  - 20180205
IS  - 1463-9084 (Electronic)
IS  - 1463-9076 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 35
DP  - 2017 Sep 13
TI  - Trimethylsilyl hedgehogs - a novel class of super-efficient hydrocarbon 
      surfactants.
PG  - 23869-23877
LID - 10.1039/c7cp02570j [doi]
AB  - Presented here are the results for a novel class of hydrocarbon surfactants, 
      termed trimethylsilyl hedgehogs (TMS-hedgehogs), due to the presence of silicon 
      in the tails. By comparing the surface properties of these hybrid hedgehogs to 
      purely hydrocarbon equivalents, links between performance and the structure are 
      made. Namely, by controlling the molecular volume of the surfactant fragments, 
      improvements can be made in surface coverage, generating lower surface energy 
      monolayers. Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) data have been collected 
      showing that these novel surfactants aggregate to form ellipsoidal micelles which 
      grow with increasing concentration. This study highlights the sensitive 
      relationship between surface tension and the surfactant chain, for designing new 
      super-efficient surfactants close to the limit of the lowest surface tensions 
      possible.
FAU - Czajka, Adam
AU  - Czajka A
AD  - School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, 
      UK. julian.eastoe@bristol.ac.uk.
FAU - Hill, Christopher
AU  - Hill C
FAU - Peach, Jocelyn
AU  - Peach J
FAU - Pegg, Jonathan C
AU  - Pegg JC
FAU - Grillo, Isabelle
AU  - Grillo I
FAU - Guittard, Frederic
AU  - Guittard F
FAU - Rogers, Sarah E
AU  - Rogers SE
FAU - Sagisaka, Masanobu
AU  - Sagisaka M
FAU - Eastoe, Julian
AU  - Eastoe J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Phys Chem Chem Phys
JT  - Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
JID - 100888160
EDAT- 2017/07/21 06:00
MHDA- 2017/07/21 06:01
CRDT- 2017/07/21 06:00
PHST- 2017/07/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/07/21 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2017/07/21 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1039/c7cp02570j [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2017 Sep 13;19(35):23869-23877. doi: 10.1039/c7cp02570j.