화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.105, No.41, 10101-10110, 2001
NaCl-induced phase separation of 1,4-dioxane-water mixtures studied by large-angle X-ray scattering and small-angle neutron scattering techniques
Salt-induced phase separation of 1,4-dioxane-water mixtures with NaCl has been investigated from the microscopic to mesoscopic scale by large-angle X-ray scattering (LAXS) and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) methods. A phase diagram of 1,4-dioxane-water-NaCl mixtures has shown that phase separation takes place in a range of 1,4-dioxane mole fraction, 0.1 < chi (dio) less than or equal to 0.7. The X-ray radial distribution functions have shown that before phase separation the preferential hydration structures of Na+ and Cl- are enhanced with increasing NaCl concentration and that after phase separation the structures of the organic and aqueous phases are practically similar to those of 1,4-dioxane-water mixtures at the corresponding solvent compositions. The SANS data have been interpreted in terms of the Debye correlation length, LD, as a parameter of concentration fluctuation. The LD values were almost constant at similar to9.4 Angstrom in the range of 0 < chi (NaCl) < similar to0.01, but increased quickly to similar to 13 Angstrom at chi (NaCl) = 0.024, which corresponds to 54% of the NaCl concentration required for phase separation. From the present findings, together with the previous results on acetonitrile-water-NaCl mixtures, a possible mechanism for NaCl-induced phase separation of 1,4-dioxane-water mixtures is discussed in terms of hydrogen bonding and dipole-dipole interaction.