Small angle diffraction studies SAXS

Phospholipid-stabilized intravenous emulsions have been widely used for parenteral nutrition and have also been introduced as drug carrier systems, especially for lipophilic compounds. The aim of the authors in the next papers we review here (50,51) was to consider in detail various mediods, c.g., PCS. nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). transmission electron micnoscopiy (TEM). and small-angle x-ray diffraction studies (SAXS), to determine parameters related to the internal structure of the particle in a model intravenous emulsion stabilized by phospholipids. An emulsion with an extremely high fat load and a classical emulsifier was chosen. PCS measurements were used to derive a particle size distnbu-tion and this was then us ) to calculate the total oil droplet surface area. The result indicated that there should be an excess of surfactants of 150%. Such an excess was not confirmed by either NMR or SAXS measurements and the dis-... 

Section 2 of this chapter describes the characterization of carbonaceous materials by powder X-ray diffraction, small-angle-X-ray scattering (SAXS), measurements of surface area, and by the carbon-hydrogen-nitrogen (CHN) test, a chemical analysis of composition. In this section, we also describe the electrochemical methods used to study carbonaceous materials. 

Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments using synchrotron radiation (SR) are performed at present mainly in the areas of real time scattering and anomalous dispersion.1 Typical applications are the study of melting or recrystallisation of semicrystalline polymers [4, 5], phase separation of alloys [6], muscle diffraction and stopped flow experiments on dissolved biopolymers [7, 8]. Anomalous dispersion has been exploited in order to determine partial structure factors in alloys [9] or polymers containing heavy atoms [10],... 

Even in dilute solutions they associate (49, 50). Published sizes of the micelles vary from 2 to 4 run. Sophisticated analytical techniques such as small-angle X-ray diffraction (SAXS), small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), and NMR were used to study the asphaltene particle or micelle sizes (51). MacKay (15) reported that a MWtof 10,000 g/mol would correspond to a 2 to 4-nm cluster. This is very much smaller than a 1-pm water droplet, and considered to be 1/100 to 1/1000 the droplet diameter. This topic is worthy of a review on its own. However, the colloidal properties of asphaltenes, micelles, and... 

CPE-1. X-ray diffraction analysis provides a direct means of studying the polymer structure. Examination of wide and small angle X-ray scattering (WAXS and SAXS) patterns of the as-spun CPE-1 fibers suggests that the structure is characterized by a well-defined orientational order of macromolecules, which are aligned parallel to the fiber axis. 

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