Techniques for Langmuir monolayer characterization using synchrotron radiation

• Grant number: 13/13149-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: August 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal Investigator: Leide Passos Cavalcanti
• Grantee: Antonio Augusto Malfatti Gasperini
• Supervisor: Oleg Veniaminovich Konovalov
• Host Institution: Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/19952-6 - STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AMPHIPHILIC SYSTEMS WITH INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION USING SMALL ANGLE X RAY SCATTERING AND COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES, BP.PD

Abstract

This overseas research proposal together with the whole post-doctoral program of the candidate, are intended mainly to bring the opportunity of new experiments for the candidate himself and the communities of users of the Brazilian National Synchrotron Light Laboratory. The host institution is the beamline ID10 of the ESRF, which offers the techniques GID, GISAXS and XRR to be performed at liquid surfaces and liquid/liquid, air and solid interfaces. The idea is to familiarize the candidate with the techniques and instrumentation of the beamline ID10 at the ESRF, in view of its implementation at the LNLS, where a similar instrumentation is installed shortly. The applicant's experience in modeling form factor for simulation of X-ray scattering, mainly acquired during this post-doctoral program, will be of great help in scientific collaboration between the two groups. Several subjects are of common interest mainly in lipid complexation with DNA and protein adsorption on surfaces and interfaces. The period chosen for this project could not be better, because the beamline ID10 of the ESRF will undergo a Review in Novembro/2013 and remodeling in March/2014: two moments for deep learning of its main features. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

LI DESTRI, GIOVANNI; MALFATTI GASPERINI, ANTONIO A.; KONOVALOV, OLEG. The Link Between Self-Assembly and Molecular Conformation of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface: The Spreading Parameter. Langmuir, v. 31, n. 32, p. 8856-8864, AUG 18 2015. (11/19952-6, 13/13149-2)

LI-DESTRI, G.; TUMMINO, A.; MALFATTI GASPERINI, A. A.; MONREAL, L. PARELLADA; MESSINA, G. M. L.; SPAMPINATO, V.; CECCONE, G.; KONOVALOV, O.. Filling nanoporous polymer thin films: an easy route toward the full control of the 3D nanostructure. RSC ADVANCES, v. 6, n. 11, p. 9175-9179, 2016. (11/19952-6, 13/13149-2)