Structural characterization of the interfacial self-assembly of chitosan with oppositely charged surfactant

Autor: Chachanidze, Revaz, Xie, Kaili, Massaad, Hanna, Roux, Denis, Leonetti, Marc, de Loubens, Clément
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Volume 616, 15 June 2022, Pages 911-920
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.01.143
Popis: Controlling the assembly of polyelectrolytes and surfactant at liquid-liquid interfaces offers new ways to fabricate soft materials with specific physical properties. However, little is known of the relationships between the kinetics of interfacial assembly, structural and rheological properties of such interfaces. We studied the kinetics at water-oil interface of the assembly of a positively charged biopolymer, chitosan, with an anionic fatty acid using a multi-scale approach. The growth kinetics of the membrane was followed by interfacial rheometry and space- and time- resolved dynamic light scattering. This set of techniques revealed that the interfacial complexation was a multi-step process. At short time-scale, the interface was fluid and made of heterogeneous patches. At a 'gelation' time, the surface elastic modulus and the correlation between speckles increased sharply meaning that the patches percolated. Confocal and electron microscopy confirmed this picture, and revealed that the basic brick of the membrane was sub-micrometric aggregates of chitosan / fatty acid.
Databáze: arXiv