- Competition at the nanoparticle surface: a subtle tale of antagonism and cooperation (keynote talk). B Cattoz, WM de Vos, T Cosgrove and SW Prescott. International Association of Colloids and Interface Scientists Conference, Sendai, Japan, May 2012.
Abstract:
Adsorption of polymers and surfactants to the liquid–nanoparticle interface presents a rich set of behaviors
depending on the specific materials involved. The surfactant-mediated desorption of polymer from the silica–water
interface is demonstrated with a combination of NMR, SANS and DLS; the binding of charged micelles to the adsorbed
polymer leads first to an elongation of the polymer chains and a reduction in the near-surface polymer concentration
followed, at higher concentrations of surfactant, by desorption of the polymer. The addition of a non-ionic surfactant
leads to the formation of mixed micelles and reverses this process.
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