Micelles evidence

Angelico, R., Palazzo, G., Colafemmina, G., Cirkel, P. A., Giustini, M., and Ceglie, A. (1998), Water diffusion and head group mobility in polymer-like reverse micelle Evidence of a sphere-to-rod-sphere transition, J. Phys. Chem. B, 102, 2883-2889. 

A. Chakraborty, D. Chakrabarty, P. Hazra, D. Seth, and N. Sarkar, Chem. Phys. Lett., 382, 508 (2003). Photoinduced Intermolecular Electron Transfer between Coumarin Dyes and Electron Donating Solvents in Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide (CTAB) Micelles Evidence for Marcus Inverted Region. 

Gan, L.-H. Reaction of hydroxide ion with 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene in cationic micelles evidence of variable counterion binding to micellar head groups. Can. J. Chem. 1985, 65(3), 598-601. 

After reviewing various earlier explanations for an adsorption maximum, Trogus, Schechter, and Wade [244] proposed perhaps the most satisfactory one so far (see also Ref. 243). Qualitatively, an adsorption maximum can occur if the surfactant consists of at least two species (which can be closely related) what is necessary is that species 2 (say) preferentially forms micelles (has a lower CMC) relative to species 1 and also adsorbs more strongly. The adsorbed state may also consist of aggregates or hemi-micelles, and even for a pure component the situation can be complex (see Section XI-6 for recent AFM evidence of surface micelle formation and [246] for polymeric surface micelles). Similar adsorption maxima found in adsorption of nonionic surfactants can be attributed to polydispersity in the surfactant chain lengths [247], Surface-active impuri-... 

Further evidence for an increased efficiency of complexation in the presence of micellar aggregates with bivalent metal counterions is presented in Table 5.4. The apparent rate constants of the reaction of 5.1c with 5.2 in the presence of micelles of Co(DS)2, Ni(DS)2, Cu(DS)2 and Zn(DS)2 are compared to the rate constants for the corresponding bivalent metal ion - dienophile complexes in the absence of micelles. The latter data are not dependent on the efficiency of the formation of the catalyst - dienophile complex whereas possible incomplete binding will certainly be reflected in the former. The good correlations between 1 and and the absence of a correlation between and... 

The practical development of plant sterol drugs as cholesterol-lowering agents will depend both on structural features of the sterols themselves and on the form of the administered agent. For example, the unsaturated sterol sitosterol is poorly absorbed in the human intestine, whereas sitostanol, the saturated analog, is almost totally unabsorbable. In addition, there is evidence that plant sterols administered in a soluble, micellar form (see page 261 for a description of micelles) are more effective in blocking cholesterol absorption than plant sterols administered in a solid, crystalline form. 

Similar conclusions were obtained from lH and 31P NMR and also from IR studies of egg phospholecithin reversed micelles in benzene by Boicelli et al. 58 61). According to the results of these experiments the water structure within the reversed phospholecithin micelles alters considerably compared with water in bulk. This becomes evident from the shortening of the relaxation time T, of the water protons split into two relaxation times T1A and T1B, indicating that there are at least two... 

A number of studies have focused on D-A systems in which D and A are either embedded in a rigid matrix [103-110] or separated by a rigid spacer with covalent bonds [111-118], Miller etal. [114, 115] gave the first experimental evidence for the bell-shape energy gap dependence in charge shift type ET reactions [114,115], Many studies have been reported on the photoinduced ET across the interfaces of some organized assemblies such as surfactant micelles [4] and vesicles [5], wherein some particular D and A species are expected to be separated by a phase boundary. However, owing to the dynamic nature of such interfacial systems, D and A are not always statically fixed at specific locations. 

No version of micellar entry theory has been proposed, which is able to explain the experimentally observed leveling off of the particle number at high and low surfactant concentrations where micelles do not even exist. There is a number of additional experimental data that refute micellar entry such as the positively skewed early time particle size distribution (22.), and the formation of Liesegang rings (30). Therefore it is inappropriate to include micellar entry as a particle formation mechanism in EPM until there is sufficient evidence to do so. 

The apparent molar volume of interfacial water in AOT-reversed micelles is lower and its refractive index is greater than that of pure water. These findings, together with other experimental evidence, emphasize that these water molecnles are destructured, immobilized, and polarized by the ionic head of AOT [2,84,89]. In particular, it has been reported that the... 

By dynamic light scattering it was found that, in surfactant stabilized dispersions of nonaqueous polar solvents (glycerol, ethylene glycol, formamide) in iso-octane, the interactions between reversed micelles are more attractive than the ones observed in w/o microemulsions, Evidence of intermicellar clusters was obtained in all of these systems [262], Attractive intermicellar interactions become larger by increasing the urea concentration in water/AOT/ -hexane microemulsions at/ = 10 [263],... 

After only a small percentage of the monomer has been converted to polymer (in the presence of emulsifier), the initially low surface tension of the aqueous emulsion rises rather abruptly, indicating a decrease in the soap concentration in the aqueous phase of the emulsion. The soap concentration is then too low to maintain micelles, which may therefore be abandoned as a locus for further polymerization beyond this point. As additional evidence of the depletion of soap in the aqueous phase, monomer droplets are no longer stable, and upon discontinuing agitation a supernatant monomer layer is readily formed. 

We have recently observed in our laboratory that water washes of undamaged leaves in a number of plants contained sterols and other lipids in sufficiently high concentration comparable with concentrations used in typical laboratory bioassays. These aqueous lipid solutions are frequently accompanied by long-chain (C-12 to C-18) fatty acids. We therefore suggest that micelle formation between the lipids and fatty acids may occur. By this mechanism the lipid solubility in the aqueous medium is significantly enhanced, thus allowing the release of otherwise water-insoluble plant constituents into the environment. Presently, experiments are in progress in our laboratory to provide further evidence for the "micelle-mechanism" of allelopathlc lipids. 

The absorption of drugs from the rectal [32] cavity has been studied in some detail. Muranishi et al. [34] have shown that a significant increase in the absorption and lymphatic uptake of soluble and colloidal macromolecules can be achieved by pretreating the rectal mucosal membrane with lipid-nonionic surfactant mixed micelles. They found no evidence of serious damage of the mucosal membrane. Davis [30] suggested that the vaginal cavity could be an effective delivery site for certain pharmaceuticals, such as calcitonin, used for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. 

Figure 7.22b shows that hydrophilic molecules, those with log Kj < 1, are much more permeable in octanol than in olive oil. The same may be said in comparison to 2% DOPC and dodecane. Octanol appears to enhance the permeability of hydrophilic molecules, compared to that of DOPC, dodecane, and olive oil. This is dramatically evident in Fig. 7.7, and is confirmed in Figs. 7.8c and 7.22b. The mechanism is not precisely known, but it is reasonable to suspect a shuttle service may be provided by the water clusters in octanol-based PAMPA (perhaps like an inverted micelle equivalent of endocytosis). Thus, it appears that charged molecules can be substantially permeable in the octanol PAMPA. However, do charged molecules permeate phospholipid bilayers to any appreciable extent We will return to this question later, and will cite evidence at least for a partial answer. 

An alternative method to overcome the solubility problem mentioned in the last section is to use bile salts to solubilize lipophilic molecules in the donor wells. Figure 7.51 shows a plot of relative permeability (Pe without bildPe with bile) versus membrane retention, which is related to lipophilicity (Section 7.7.2). As the plot shows, the most lipophilic molecules (carvedilol, propranolol, and verapamil) have attenuated permeabilities (by a factor of 3 in the case of carvedilol). The effective partition coefficient between the PAMPA membrane phase and the aqueous phase containing bile salt micelles [577] is expected to be lower for lipophilic molecules, which should result in lower Pe values. This is evident in the figure. 

Time-resolved in situ Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) investigations have provided direct experimental evidence for the initial steps in the formation of the SBA-15 mesoporous material, prepared using the non-ionic tri-block copolymer Pluronic 123 and TEOS as silica precursor. Upon time, three steps take place during the cooperative self-assembly of the Pluronic micelles and the silica species. First, the hydrolysis of TEOS is completed, without modifications of the Pluronic spherical micelles. Then, when silica species begin to interact with the micelles, a transformation from spherical to cylindrical micelles takes place before the precipitation of the ordered SBA-15 material. Lastly, the precipitation occurs and hybrid cylindrical micelles assemble into the two-dimensional hexagonal structure of SBA-15. 

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