期刊
COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE
卷 289, 期 14, 页码 1589-1596出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-011-2484-y
关键词
Surfactant; Polyelectrolyte; Nanostructured materials; Fatty acid; Chitosan
资金
- University of Toledo's College of Engineering
Mixtures of oppositely charged surfactants and polyelectrolytes self-assemble into a variety of nanostructured complexes. With the view of developing simpler and cleaner alternatives to synthetic nanomaterials, self-assembled nanostructures can be prepared from bioderived surfactant/polyelectrolyte mixtures. These complexes can be designed to vary their phase behavior and structure in response to external stimuli, and are simpler and cleaner to prepare than conventional synthetic copolymers (e.g., block or graft). Yet, some potential applications of surfactant/polyelectrolyte complexes are limited by their lower stability. Here, we overcome this limitation by covalently coupling the surfactant head group to the polymer chain. Visual observations and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) reveal that covalent coupling dramatically improves stability at both the macroscopic and mesoscopic lengthscales. This suggests that, through covalent conjugation, stability of nanostructured surfactant/biopolymer complexes can be made to rival that of synthetic copolymers, thereby extending their use to applications that require long-lasting nanostructured materials.
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