INFLUENCE OF SURFACTANTS ON THE STRUCTURE OF TITANIUM-OXIDE GELS - EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS

Authors
MOLINO F BARTHEZ JM AYRAL A GUIZARD C JULLIEN R MARIGNAN J
Citation
F. Molino et al., INFLUENCE OF SURFACTANTS ON THE STRUCTURE OF TITANIUM-OXIDE GELS - EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 53(1), 1996, pp. 921-925
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physycs, Mathematical","Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics → ACNP
ISSN journal
1063651X
Volume
53
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Part
B
Pages
921 - 925
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-651X(1996)53:1<921:IOSOTS>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
We report here on experimental and numerical studies of the influence of surfactants on mineral gel synthesis. The modification of the gel s tructure when the water-precursor and water-surfactant ratios vary is brought to the fore by fractal dimension measures. A property of polyd ispersity of the initial hydrolysis is proposed to explain these resul ts, and is successful when tested through numerical experiments of thr ee-dimensional chemically limited aggregation.