Slow Aggregation of Titania Nanocrystals in Acidic Hydrosols

2011 ◽  
Vol 1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Pavlova-Verevkina ◽  
Ludmila Ozerina ◽  
Natalia Golubko ◽  
Abdelkrim Chemseddine

ABSTRACTThe kinetics of slow aggregation of monodisperse TiO2 nanocrystals in the acidic hydrosols at room temperature was studied for months by turbidimetry. The dependence of the initial rate of aggregation on the pH was calculated. The comparison of results obtained by turbidimetry and small angle X-ray scattering permits to suppose that very loose aggregates form at the low pH in HCl solution. The dependencies obtained in this work for room temperature can be taken into consideration at the tuning of TiO2 nanoparticles morphology through thermal treatment of hydrosols.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Wu ◽  
Jeffrey Ting ◽  
Siqi Meng ◽  
Matthew Tirrell

We have directly observed the <i>in situ</i> self-assembly kinetics of polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) micelles by synchrotron time-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering, equipped with a stopped-flow device that provides millisecond temporal resolution. This work has elucidated one general kinetic pathway for the process of PEC micelle formation, which provides useful physical insights for increasing our fundamental understanding of complexation and self-assembly dynamics driven by electrostatic interactions that occur on ultrafast timescales.


2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 4042-4050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick S. Dai ◽  
Peggy Cebe ◽  
Malcolm Capel ◽  
Rufina G. Alamo ◽  
Leo Mandelkern

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 2896-2905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saikat Das ◽  
Suraj Nagpure ◽  
Ravinder K. Garlapalli ◽  
Qingliu Wu ◽  
Syed Z. Islam ◽  
...  

Grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) shows that thin titania films with uniform orthogonal cylindrical pore orientation are stabilized against thermally induced mesostructure loss.


2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (21) ◽  
pp. 8097-8106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huifen Nie ◽  
Rama Bansil ◽  
Karl Ludwig ◽  
Milos Steinhart ◽  
Čestmír Koňák ◽  
...  

Langmuir ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (30) ◽  
pp. 8478-8487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhifeng Yi ◽  
Ludovic F. Dumée ◽  
Christopher J. Garvey ◽  
Chunfang Feng ◽  
Fenghua She ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 1301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maraolina Domínguez-Díaz ◽  
Araceli Flores ◽  
Angel Romo-Uribe ◽  
Rodolfo Cruz-Silva

ABSTRACTWide Angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) and indentation hardness have been used to study the development of crystallinity at room temperature of biodegradable poly(hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) and its copolymer with hydroxyvalerate (PHB/HV) containing 12% of valerate. Measurements were carried out immediately after quenching the samples from the molten state (200 ºC) in ice water and over two weeks of storage at room temperature. WAXS showed that the crystallization of the PHB-based polymers initiated within the first minutes of storage at room temperature, the copolymer displaying a higher rate of crystallization than the homopolymer. For all samples, the degree of crystallinity,α, nearly reached a plateau value within the first hour of crystallization. Concurrently to the development of crystallinity, microhardness values,H, clearly rose as crystallization occurred. Monitoring the crystallization for over two weeks showed that after the rapid increase ofαandH, there was a slow monotonic growth of these properties. A correlation between nanostructure and microhardness is found at all stages of the crystallization process.


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 1278-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Fernández-Regúlez ◽  
Eduardo Solano ◽  
Laura Evangelio ◽  
Steven Gottlieb ◽  
Christian Pinto-Gómez ◽  
...  

An accurate knowledge of the parameters governing the kinetics of block copolymer self-assembly is crucial to model the time- and temperature-dependent evolution of pattern formation during annealing as well as to predict the most efficient conditions for the formation of defect-free patterns. Here, the self-assembly kinetics of a lamellar PS-b-PMMA block copolymer under both isothermal and non-isothermal annealing conditions are investigated by combining grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) experiments with a novel modelling methodology that accounts for the annealing history of the block copolymer film before it reaches the isothermal regime. Such a model allows conventional studies in isothermal annealing conditions to be extended to the more realistic case of non-isothermal annealing and prediction of the accuracy in the determination of the relevant parameters, namely the correlation length and the growth exponent, which define the kinetics of the self-assembly.


Structure ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 348-354.e3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inokentijs Josts ◽  
Yunyun Gao ◽  
Diana C.F. Monteiro ◽  
Stephan Niebling ◽  
Julius Nitsche ◽  
...  

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