Abstract

ABSTRACTThe small angle neutron scattering intensity distribution from the empty pores of the silica glass Vycor can be satisfactorily interpreted using a simplified late stage spinodal decomposition model, due to Cahn', if one allows for a distribution of wave numbers in the material's density function. The result confirms that the porosity of the glass is 28% and gives the mean wave number of the density wave to be k0 = 0.0285 Å-−1 with a dispersion, δk / k0, of about 0.29. Small angle neutron scattering measurements of the anionic surfactant SDS in the Vycor pores indicate that when the surfactant is introduced into the pores at 80 × CMC in bulk solution, the surfactant forms micelles with the same average micelle separation distance as in the bulk solution, but the distribution of micelle separations is much greater in the glass pores.

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