Sandwich organization of non-ionic surfactant liquid crystalline phases as induced by large inorganic K4Nb6O17 nanosheets

Régis Guégan (1, 2) , K. Sueyoshi (3) , S. Anraku (3) , S Yamamoto (3) , N. Miyamoto (3)

1 ISTO - Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327
2 Biogéosystèmes Continentaux - UMR7327
3 Department of Life Environment and Materials Science

While keeping its lamellar liquid crystal phase, K4Nb6O17 nanosheets were used as a template to sandwich and stabilize an alkylpoly(ethylene oxide) nonionic surfactant-water system showing a monodomain (lamella) formation within the inorganic niobate sheets that appears to not be depend to the surfactant liquid crystalline state in solution but more its concentration.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Continental interfaces, environment

Régis Guégan, K. Sueyoshi, S. Anraku, S Yamamoto, N. Miyamoto. Sandwich organization of non-ionic surfactant liquid crystalline phases as induced by large inorganic K4Nb6O17 nanosheets. Chemical Communications, 2016, 52, pp.1594-1597. ⟨10.1039/C5CC08948D⟩. ⟨insu-01237520⟩