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Title	Supercritical Fluid Swelling of Liquid Crystal Films
Contributors	JM O'Callaghan (University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin), MP Copley (University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin), JP Hanrahan (University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin), MA Morris (University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin), DC Steytler (East Anglia U.), RK Heenan (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), R Staudt (Leipzig U.), JD Holmes (University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin)
Abstract	The influence of liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide and liquid propane on the structural properties of both ionic and nonionic surfactant-based liquid crystal films is discussed in this paper. Swelling of the films, measured using in situ small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), was found to be dependent on the solubility of the propane/carbon dioxide in the micelles of the respective liquid crystals. Additionally, under certain pressure conditions the structural properties of some of the films were observed to change, ultimately leading to a loss of order in the micellar arrays of the liquid crystals.
Organisation	ISIS , ISIS-LOQ , STFC
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Language	English (EN)

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Journal Article	Langmuir 24, no. 13 (2008): 6959-6964.	doi:10.1021/la800073t		2008