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ProfessorJoaoCabral

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Professor of Soft Matter
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5571j.cabral Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Sarah Payne +44 (0)20 7594 5567

 
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Location

 

517AACE ExtensionSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Khodaparast:2021:10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02464,
author = {Khodaparast, S and Sharratt, WN and Dalgliesh, RM and Cabral, JT},
doi = {10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02464},
journal = {Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids},
pages = {12512--12517},
title = {Growth of myelin figures from parent multilamellar vesicles},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02464},
volume = {37},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We examine the formation and growth of isolated myelin figures and microscale multilamellar tubules from isotropic micellar solutions of an anionic surfactant. Upon cooling, surfactant micelles transform into multilamellar vesicles (MLVs) whose contact is found to trigger the unidirectional growth of myelins. While the MLV diameter grows as dMLV ∝ t1/2, myelins grow linearly in time as LM ∝ t1, with a fixed diameter. Combining time-resolved small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and optical microscopy, we demonstrate that the microscopic growth of spherical MLVs and cylindrical myelins stems from the same nanoscale molecular mechanism, namely, the surfactant exchange from micelles into curved lamellar structures at a constant volumetric rate. This mechanism successfully describes the growth rate of (nonequilibrium) myelin figures based on a population balance at thermodynamic equilibrium.
AU  - Khodaparast,S
AU  - Sharratt,WN
AU  - Dalgliesh,RM
AU  - Cabral,JT
DO  - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02464
EP  - 12517
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 0743-7463
SP  - 12512
TI  - Growth of myelin figures from parent multilamellar vesicles
T2  - Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02464
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000711763600027&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02464
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97212
VL  - 37
ER  -
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