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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R88595/01
Title:	Use of alkylpolyglucosides in the synthesis of hierarchical mesoporous
Principal Investigator:	Newport, Professor R
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Department:	Sch of Physical Sciences
Organisation:	University of Kent
Scheme:	Fast Stream
Starts:	23 September 2002	Ends:	22 September 2005	Value (£):	62,922
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Chemical Structure Chemical Synthetic Methodology
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Chemicals Electronics No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Alkylpolyglucosides (APG) are a relatively new family of non-ionic surfactants that consist of polar oligosaccharide headgroups covalently bonded to hydrophobic alkane chains. These neutral amphiphiles have potentially considerable favourable characteristics when compared to previously studied neutral polyoxyethylene alkyl ethers. During the proposed research programme, the synthesis of hierarchical mesoporous materials employing APG as the templating species will be performed using a variety of strategies. The pure APGs will initially be used in forming siliceous porous structures with rapid extension being applied to forming mesoporous transition metal oxides, in both aqueous and non-aqueous solvents. In addition, control of the resulting morphology, specifically thin film formation at interfaces, will be investigated in order to achieve functional membranes with semi-permeable characteristics. Other aspects of the proposed research would be to employ APGs in microemulsion templated synthesis of reticulated structures. These surfactants have previously been used to form stable, temperature insensitive microemulsions for technical applications and the range in which a stable APG microemulsion exists is minimally affected by electrolytes. These characteristics, which are in contrast to previously studied surfactants, would be extremely useful since the organic template would be relatively tenacious during temperature-based syntheses of functional porous ferroelectric perovskites and layered semiconductor dichalcognides.
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