Abstract:

This dataset supporting the paper "Bio-inspired surfactants capable of generating plant volatiles, Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 3076. DOI: 10.1039/c5sm00157a SUPPORTING INFO: http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/c5/sm/c5sm00157a/c5sm00157a1.pdf Dataset shows the pictorial representation of production and relesae of plant volatiles, the chemistry of smell formation and details of Surface tension vs log C plot of the farnesol-based surfactants and conductivity studies to support the surface tension measurements.

Suggested Citation:

Bhadani, Avinash et al.. 2015. Dataset supporting the publication "Bio-inspired surfactants capable of generating plant volatiles". Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7CR5RBW

Publications:

Bhadani, A., Rane, J., Veresmortean, C., Banerjee, S., & John, G. (2015). Bio-inspired surfactants capable of generating plant volatiles. Soft Matter, 11(15), 3076–3082. doi:10.1039/c5sm00157a

Purpose:

The objective of this work is to understand the process of generation, storage and release of plant volatiles (PVs) by plants in a biomimetic pathway, utilizing simple amphiphiles as precursors. We show that bio-inspired farnesol-based surfactants capable of self-activating and self-aggregating in aqueous system have been designed. These surfactants are able to adsorb at air–water interface and self-assemble as micelles in aqueous solution. The micelle core acts as center for generation and storage of volatile organic molecules where the activated aggregated molecules rearrange to form several organic volatile molecules.

Data Parameters and Units:

Dataset includes, chemistry based slides (additional data), Cartoon representation of plant volatile formation. Conductivity studies (conc (mM) versus specific conductivity) and surface tension measurements (log C versus surface tension)

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