Issue 5, 2010
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Soft Matter

Fluorinated microemulsions as reaction media for fluorous nanoparticles†

Martin J. Hollamby,a   Julian Eastoe,*a   Kevin J. Mutch,a   Sarah Rogersb  and  Richard K. Heenanb  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, UK
E-mail: Julian.Eastoe@bristol.ac.uk

b ISIS-CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon, UK

Abstract

New fluorinated microemulsions (F-MEs) formulated from partially fluorinated solvent–co-solvent mixtures and fluorinated anionic AOT-analogue surfactants are reported. These F-MEs permit incorporation of water into fluorinated solvents, up to a volume fraction ϕwater ≈ 0.13. Interestingly, phase behavior and structures, determined by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), parallel many other classical AOT-type microemulsions, both in normal hydrocarbon and in supercritical-CO2 (scCO2) solvents. Using these new F-MEs as reaction media, F-capped silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have been synthesized, representing the first reported preparation of F-NPs in fluorous phase microemulsions.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B922260J
Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Oct 2009
Accepted
24 Nov 2009
First published
04 Jan 2010

Soft Matter, 2010,6, 971-976

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Fluorinated microemulsions as reaction media for fluorous nanoparticles

M. J. Hollamby, J. Eastoe, K. J. Mutch, S. Rogers and R. K. Heenan, Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 971 DOI: 10.1039/B922260J

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