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Influence of surfactants on the structure of titanium oxide gels : experiments and simulations

Francois R. Molino, J. M. Barthez, A. Ayral, C. Guizard, R. Jullien, J. Marignan

chem-pharXiv:chem-ph/9511002

Abstract

We report here on experimental and numerical studies of the influence of surfactants on mineral gel synthesis. The modification of the gel structure when the ratios water-precursor and water-surfactant vary is brought to the fore by fractal dimension measures. A property of polydispersity of the initial hydrolysis is proposed to explain these results, and is successfuly tested through numerical experiments of three dimensional chemically limited aggregation.

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