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@ARTICLE{Nouhi:889063,
author = {Nouhi, Shirin and Koutsioumpas, Alexandros and Kapaklis,
Vassilios and Rennie, Adrian R.},
title = {{D}istortion of surfactant lamellar phases induced by
surface roughness},
journal = {European physical journal special topics},
volume = {229},
number = {17-18},
issn = {1951-6401},
address = {Heidelberg},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-00006},
pages = {2807 - 2823},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Self-assembly is a characteristic property of soft matter.
Understanding the factors which assist or perturb this
process is of great importance in many biological and
industrial processes. Amphiphiles self-assemble and order
into a variety of structures including well-ordered lamellar
phases. The present work uses neutron reflectometry and
neutron scattering to explore the effects of both interface
roughness and temperature on the lamellar-phase structure of
a non-ionic surfactant at a solid/liquid interface. The
structure of concentrated solutions of tetraethyleneglycol
dodecyl ether has been compared against a smooth surface and
one with a roughness of the order of the lamellar spacing.
This has been done in order to investigate the role
perturbations have on the overall lamellar order, when these
have length scales of the order of the interactions between
neighboring lamellae. The results showed that the surfactant
forms a well-ordered and aligned structure at a smooth
surface, extending to a depth of several micrometers from
the interface. Increasing the temperature of the sample and
subsequent cooling promotes alignment and increases the
number of oriented layers at the surface. The same sample
forms a significantly less aligned structure against a rough
surface that does not align to the same extent, even after
heating. The perturbation of the structure caused by thermal
fluctuations was found to be much less than that imposed by
a small surface roughness.},
cin = {JCNS-FRM-II / JCNS-1 / MLZ / JCNS-4},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106 / I:(DE-588b)4597118-3 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-4-20201012},
pnm = {6215 - Soft Matter, Health and Life Sciences (POF3-621) /
6G4 - Jülich Centre for Neutron Research (JCNS) (POF3-623)
/ 6G15 - FRM II / MLZ (POF3-6G15)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6215 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G15},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)MARIA-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000590141900006},
doi = {10.1140/epjst/e2020-900220-3},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/889063},
}