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- Formation and ordering of nano-crystals at liquid-liquid and liquid-air interfaces
- 2016-03-18T12:00:00+01:00
- 2016-03-18T13:00:00+01:00
- Prof. Milan K. Sanyal, Professor and former director, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (India)
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- Mar 18, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (Europe/Madrid / UTC100)
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- Marie Curie Room
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- Inma Hernández
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- +34 93 592 43 89
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Formation and ordering of nanomaterials in liquid-air and in liquid-liquid interfaces are fascinating phenomena and can be probed in-situ very efficiently with synchrotron X-ray scattering techniques. We shall discuss here two of our recent results as examples to illustrate this subject.
The first example is the counter intuitive reversible crystallisation of two-dimensional monolayer of Trisilanolisobutyl Polyhedral Oligomeric SilSesquioxane (TBPOSS) on water surface. Amphiphilic TBPOSS form rugged monolayers and Grazing Incidence X-ray Scattering (GIXS) measurements reveal that the in-plane inter-particle correlation peaks, characteristic of two-dimensional system, observed before transition is replaced by intense localized spots after transition.
The other example is the formation CuS single-crystals at the water–toluene interface through an interfacial reaction. Nano-crystallites of CuS form within a few minutes at the interface as the reagents are brought from the organic (upper) and aqueous (lower) layers to the interface, then crystallization of CuS proceeds over a few hours only by reorganization. The interface confinement and passivation by organics is critical here in the formation of single crystals having sizes of 6 and 200 nm along the normal and in-plane directions of the liquid–liquid interface.