Journal article
Molecular interactions behind the synergistic effect in mixed monolayers of 1-octadecanol and ethylene glycol monooctadecyl ether
DNH Tran, EL Prime, M Plazzer, AHM Leung, G Yiapanis, AJ Christofferson, I Yarovsky, GG Qiao, DH Solomon
Journal of Physical Chemistry B | AMER CHEMICAL SOC | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.1021/jp401027c
Abstract
Mixed monolayers of 1-octadecanol (C18OH) and ethylene glycol monooctadecyl ether (C18E1) were studied to assess their evaporation suppressing performance. An unexpected increase in performance and stability was found around the 0.5:0.5 bicomponent mixture and has been ascribed to a synergistic effect of the monolayers. Molecular dynamics simulations have attributed this to an additional hydrogen bonding interaction between the monolayer and water, due to the exposed ether oxygen of C18E1 in the mixed system compared to the same ether oxygen in the pure C18E1 system. This interaction is maximized around the 0.5:0.5 ratio due to the particular interfacial geometry associated with this mixture..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The financial support of The Cooperative Research Centre for Polymers (CRC-P) and the Australian Research Council Discovery grant DP110101604 is gratefully acknowledged. High performance computing resources granted through the merit allocation scheme by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) facility, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC), IVEC and the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Infrastructure (VLSCI) provided by the Australian Government are also gratefully acknowledged.