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EPSRC Reference:	GR/L48065/01
Title:	EFFECTS OF PRESSURE ON LYOTROPIC LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASE STRUCTURE AND STABILITY
Principal Investigator:	Seddon, Professor JM
Other Investigators:	Templer, Professor R
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Project Partners:	University of Dortmund
Department:	Chemistry
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	30 September 1997	Ends:	29 September 2000	Value (£):	102,760
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Complex fluids & soft solids
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the structure and stability of lyotropic liquid-crystalline phases will be studied by conventional and synchrotron X-ray diffraction. The amphiphiles chose for study are synthetic phosphlipids and glycolipids, and their mixtures with fatty acids and fatty alcohols. These data, in conjunction with volumetric and thermal measurements as functions of pressure, will be analysed within the framework of recent framework of recent curvature elasticity theories of phases stability. The results will yield invaluable insights into the relative importance of chain disorder, packing frustration and preferred interfacial curvature in controlling phase structure and stability.
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