Figure 3
Experimental SWAXS spectra (ID02, ESRF) of three samples near the binodal, at mass fractions in octan-1-ol/ethanol/water of (a), (d) 0.188/0.373/0.439 for the water-rich sample, (b), (e) 0.4735/0.3227/0.2038 for the bicontinuous sample and (c), (f) 0.5864/0.2657/0.1479 for the oil-rich sample. Solid red lines are best fits to the two-contribution model [equation (1)], dashed green lines are the OZ contributions, and dotted dark-orange lines are the Lorentzian functions for dense clusters of hydroxy groups. Plots (a)–(c) are on a double logarithmic scale and plots (d)–(f) are on a double linear scale. The deviation at high Q can be avoided if the constant background used in these plots is replaced by the sum of the Lorentzian functions fitting the WAXS peaks (see e.g. the fits in Fig. 1). Similar plots for samples further away from the binodal are shown in Fig. S5 in the supporting information. |