Critical micelle concentration surfactants, basic properties

The research on aggregation of surfactants in nonaqueous, polar solvent systems can be motivated, mainly, with two different arguments. First, are the basic considerations of amphiphile aggregation involving a description of the hydrophobic interaction leading to, for example, micelle and liquid crystal formation. What can be learned from comparing water with other polar solvents Much work has been performed to elucidate those properties of the solvent that are essential in order to obtain a hydrophobic (or solvophobic ) interaction. Comparisons of critical micelle concentrations in different solvents with parameters characterizing the solvent are numerous in the literature [1,2],... 

One of the basic principles of controlling the properties of adhesives considered here is inclusion of surface-active substances (surfactants) capable of chemical interaction with the adhesive components and entering into the adhesives composition. Such reactive surface-active (RS) substances differ radically from chemically indifferent surface-active (IS) substances. In the course of polymerization of oligomers containing IS substances there is a decrease of the critical concentration for micelle formation (CCMF) and formation of substanti d quantities of large micelles of surfactant, which results in weak layers on the boundary between the adhesive and substrate and in decrease of the adhesion strength. 

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