Micelles light scattering

Candau S, Hirsch E, Zana R (1984) New aspects of the behaviour of alkyltiimethylammonium bromide micelles light scattering and viscometric studies. J Phys 45 1263-1270... 

W. Brown, R. Johnsen, P. Stilbs, B. Lindman. Size and shape of nonionic amphiphile (Ci2Eg) micelles in dilute aqueous solutions as derived from quasielastic and intensity of light scattering, sedimentation and pulsed-field-gradient nuclear magnetic resonance self-diffusion data. J Phys Chem 87 4548-4553, 1983. 

Another example of OTHdC application is the study of the association/ dissociation of copolymer micelles. Using the light-scattering technique, the... 

Water is extensively used to produce emulsion polymers with a sodium stearate emulsifrer. The emulsion concentration should allow micelles of large surface areas to form. The micelles absorb the monomer molecules activated by an initiator (such as a sulfate ion radical 80 4 ). X-ray and light scattering techniques show that the micelles start to increase in size by absorbing the macromolecules. For example, in the free radical polymerization of styrene, the micelles increased to 250 times their original size. 

Dynamic light-scattering experiments or the analysis of some physicochemical properties have shown that finite amounts of formamide, A-methylformamide, AA-dimethyl-formamide, ethylene glycol, glycerol, acetonitrile, methanol, and 1,2 propanediol can be entrapped within the micellar core of AOT-reversed micelles [33-36], The encapsulation of formamide and A-methylformamide nanoclusters in AOT-reversed micelles involves a significant breakage of the H-bond network characterizing their structure in the pure state. Moreover, from solvation dynamics measurements it was deduced that the intramicellar formamide is nearly completely immobilized [34,35],... 

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],... 

With the development of new instrumental techniques, much new information on the size and shape of aqueous micelles has become available. The inceptive description of the micelle as a spherical agglomerate of 20-100 monomers, 12-30 in radius (JJ, with a liquid hydrocarbon interior, has been considerably refined in recent years by spectroscopic (e.g. nmr, fluorescence decay, quasielastic light-scattering), hydrodynamic (e.g. viscometry, centrifugation) and classical light-scattering and osmometry studies. From these investigations have developed plausible descriptions of the thermodynamic and kinetic states of micellar micro-environments, as well as an appreciation of the plurality of micelle size and shape. 

Gebhardt, R., Doster, W., Friedrich, J., and Kulozik, U. (2006). Size distribution of pressure-decomposed casein micelles studied by dynamic light scattering and AFM. Eur. Biophys.. Biophys. Lett. 35,503-509. 

In our earlier efforts to synthesize dendritic amphiphiles, we described a triden-dron (43) which was prepared by a two-step (alkylation-amidation or triester-tris) reaction sequence applied to l,3,5-tris(bromomethyl)benzene [117]. TEM and light scattering experiments suggested that 43 aggregated by stacking of its hydrophilic exterior into a spherical array of ca. 20 nm (diameter) reminiscent of globular micelles. 

Particle size of the micelle was determined by light scattering. Distance between the copper electrodes was maintained at 1 cm. After electrochemical deposition the electrode was removed from the cell and dried at 100° C for 10 min to remove water. Electrochemical deposition was done initially under galvanostatic conditions with the applied current density of 30 - 60 A per square foot, and then changed to potentiostatic conditions after achieving a required film thickness. 

We call the centre of the concentration range the critical micelle concentration (CMC). As an over-simplification, we say the solution has no colloidal micelles below the CMC, but effectively all the monomer exists as micelles above the CMC. As no micelles exist below the CMC, a solution of monomer is clear - like the solution of dilute soap in the bath. But above the CMC, micelles form in solution and impart a turbid aspect owing to Tyndall light scattering. This latter situation corresponds to washing the face in a sink. 

Here, we focus on one class ofblock copolymers synthesized by this method polystyrene-6-poly(vinylperfluorooctanic acid ester) block copolymers (Figure 10.33). After describing the synthesis and characterization, we will treat some properties and the potential applications of this new class ofblock copolymers. The amphiphilicity of the polymers is visualized by the ability to form micelles in diverse solvents that are characterized by dynamic light scattering (DLS). Then the use of these macromolecules for dispersion polymerization in very unpolar media is demonstrated by the polymerization of styrene in 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane (Freon 113). 

Figure 3. Change in light scattering intensity (Rjo ) upon photo-irradiation of the micelle of 2a. [2] = M. AABS at 450 nm...

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