Amphiphilic micelles

J. C. Lang, Physics of Amphiphiles Micelles, Vesicles and Microemulsions, Soc. Italiana di Fisica, XC Corso, Bologna, 1985. 

Figure B3.6.4. Illustration of tliree structured phases in a mixture of amphiphile and water, (a) Lamellar phase the hydrophilic heads shield the hydrophobic tails from the water by fonning a bilayer. The amphiphilic heads of different bilayers face each other and are separated by a thin water layer, (b) Hexagonal phase tlie amphiphiles assemble into a rod-like structure where the tails are shielded in the interior from the water and the heads are on the outside. The rods arrange on a hexagonal lattice, (c) Cubic phase amphiphilic micelles with a hydrophobic centre order on a BCC lattice.

V. Degiorgio, M. Corti, eds. Physics of Amphiphiles Micelles, Vesicles and Microemulsions. Amsterdam North-Holland, 1985 W. M. Gelbart, A. Ben-Shaul, D. Roux, eds. Micelles, membranes, microemulsions and monolayers. Berlin Springer, 1994. 

S. Carra, M. Morbidelli, and G. Storti, in Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi, Course XC Physics of Amphiphiles Micelles, Vesicles and Microemulsions (V. Degiorgio and M. Corti, ed.), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1985, pp. 483-512. 

Peptide- amphiphile/ micelle Parallel 8-sheet Nearly any sequence with terminal alkylation Hydrophobic aggregation followed by hydrogen bonding Parallel... 

Degiorgio V (1985) In Degiorgio V, Corti M (eds) Physics of amphiphiles micelles, vesicles and microemulsions. North-Holland Amsterdam... 

At very low concentrations of amphiphile, micelles will not form the transition from the unaggregated to the micellar state occurs over a narrow range of concentration known as the critical micellar concentration. 

DeGiorgio, V. In "Physics of Amphiphiles Micelles, Vesicles and Microemulsions" DeGiorgio, V. Corti, Eds. North-Holland Amsterdam, 1985, p. 303 and references therein. 

Extensive studies have been made of photo-induced electron-transfer processes in amphiphilic micelles (Turro et al., 1980). The micelle structure is considered to be spherical, having an inner hydrocarbon core and an outer, highly charged and densely packed Stern layer which is surrounded by a charged but less densely packed Gouy-Chapman layer. 

It was stated earlier that the solubility of decane in the LI phase is almost zero. For a well-defined surfactant-to-cosurfactant ratio, very large quantities of decane (or any hydrocarbon) can be solubilized in the LI phase. A thin, snake-like singlephase domain develops toward the oil vertex of the phase diagram (Figure 3.10). This phase can be regarded as amphiphile micelles swollen with oil. 

Fig. 17. Longitudinal and cross-sectional views of the proposed molecular models for the structure of bile salt-lecithin (BS-L) mixed micelles. All recent experimental data for BS-swelling amphiphile micelles are consistent with model B. In this model, reverse BS aggregates are present in high concentrations within the hydrophobic domains of L or other swelling amphiphile bilayers. BS also coat the perimeter of the disks as a bilayered ribbon . (From ref. 102 with permission.)...

Bile salt-swelling amphiphile-insoluble amphiphile micelles... 

P. Anilkumar and M. Jayakannan, Divergent nanostructures from identical ingredients Unique amphiphilic micelle template for polyaniUne nanofibers, tubes, rods, and spheres. Macromolecules, 41, 7706 7715 (2008). 

Degiorgio, V., in Physics of Amphiphiles Micelles, Vesicles and Microemulsions Degiorgio, V. and Corti, M., (Eds), NHPC, 1985. 

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