Accession Number:
ADA429469
Title:
New Colloidal Systems with Practical Ramifications
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 30 May 2001-31 May 2004
Corporate Author:
EMORY UNIV ATLANTA GA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
2004-05-01
Pagination or Media Count:
8.0
Abstract:
This Final Report begins with a description of two catalysts and one microemulsion that are effective decontamination systems for mustard and nerve agent simulants. It then describes new ester-modified surfactants synthesized in the hopes that they would provide enhanced solublilization power. In the process, a comparison was made between contiguous and segmented hydrophobicity, the first such comparison of its kind. Surfactants were found to differ in their cmc, foaming, area of occupancy at the airwater interface, and solid-adsorption and solublization power depending on the location of the ester groups within the chains. Finally, the first cryo-etch-high resolution scanning electron microscopy study of aqueous saline was carried out to learn how salt is excluded from frozen water.
Descriptors:
- *DECONTAMINATION
- *SURFACE ACTIVE SUBSTANCES
- *CATALYSIS
- *SOLUBILITY
- *CHEMICAL AGENT SIMULANTS
- *EMULSIONS
- *MICELLES
- ADSORPTION
- ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
- FREEZING
- ICE
- TOXIC AGENTS
- CATALYSTS
- MUSTARD AGENTS
- ESTERS
- HYDROLYSIS
- NERVE AGENTS
- CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS
- ALDEHYDES
- HYDROPHOBIC PROPERTIES
- SALINE SOLUTION
- PROPYLENE GLYCOL
Subject Categories:
- Physical Chemistry
- Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare