Membrane formation by preferential solvation of ions in mixture of water, 3-methylpyridine, and sodium tetraphenylborate

The Journal of Chemical Physics
Koichiro SadakaneHideki Seto

Abstract

The structure and dynamics of a ternary system composed of deuterium oxide (D2O), 3-methylpyridine (3MP), and sodium tetraphenylborate (NaBPh4) are investigated by means of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and neutron spin echo (NSE) techniques. In the SANS experiments, a structural phase transition is confirmed between a disordered-phase and an ordered-lamellar-phase upon variation of the composition and/or temperature of the mixture. The characteristic lengths of the structures is on the sub-micrometer scale. A dispersion relation of the structure is measured through NSE experiments, which shows that the relaxation rate follows a cubic relation with momentum transfer. This implies that the dynamics of the system are determined predominantly by membrane fluctuations. The present results indicate that 3MP-rich domains are microscopically separated from bulk water in the presence of NaBPh4, and that the layers behave as membranes. These results are interpreted that preferential solvation of salt in each solvent induces a microphase separation between the solvents, and the periodic structure of 3MP-rich domains is stabilized by the long-range electrostatic interaction arising from Na(+) ions in D2O-rich domains.

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
small-angle neutron scattering
SANS
neutron scattering

Software Mentioned

DAVE
NSE

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