Grain and Domain Microstructure in Long Chain <i>N</i>-Alkane and <i>N</i>-Alkanol Wax Crystals.

ABSTRACT: Waxes comprise a diverse set of materials from lubricants and coatings to biological materials such as the intracuticular wax layers on plant leaves that restrict water loss to inhibit dehydration. Despite the often mixed hydrocarbon chain lengths and functional groups within waxes, they show a propensity for ordering into crystalline phases, albeit with a wealth of solid solution behavior and disorder modes that determine chemical transport and mechanical properties. Here, we reveal the microscopic structure and heterogeneity of replica leaf wax models based on the dominant wax types in the Schefflera elegantissima plant, namely C₃₁H₆₄ and C₃₀H₆₁OH and their binary mixtures. We observe defined grain microstructure in C₃₁H₆

SUBMITTER: Wynne E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11660156 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature