Antipercolation threshold

These experimental results can be rationalized by the DOC-cylinders model, which is the only one consistent with the presence of antipercolation thresholds in the phase diagrams, and also with the position of the maximum peak in the scattering diagram as a function of the angle obtained from SAXS experiments. This maximum is directly linked to a preferred distance... 

The method of deducing solute location from the scattering peak shift in the case of spherical reversed-micelles can be generalized to the case of connected structures (56). For instance, consider the model case of a bicontinous structure, close to the electrical antipercolation threshold. Take the polar volume fraction to be in the range 0.3 to 0.4 and the specific area to be E = 0.02 A /A, which corresponds to a 0.5 M solution of a classical surfactant. In addition, consider a chain length of 15 A and an initial surfactant packing parameter of Po = 1.25. 

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