Surfactant Induced Nano-Structures

Polymeric micelles stabilized by a wetting layer of TX100 

Precipitated polymer/ sur tarrt complex in sheet-like structure 

Disintegration of LCMs by speciiic binding of TX1Q0 to the fullerene domains 

Cjxioo = 0.7 mM, selective binding of TXlOO to fullerene domains, which releases polymer 

Polymeric micelles slabilized by a weting layerof TX100 

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The integrated DLS device provides an example of a measurement tool tailored to nano-scale structure determination in fluids, e.g., polymers induced to form specific assemblies in selective solvents. There is, however, a critical need to understand the behavior of polymers and other interfacial modifiers at the interface of immiscible fluids, such as surfactants in oil-water mixtures. Typical measurement methods used to determine the interfacial tension in such mixtures tend to be time-consuming and had been described as a major barrier to systematic surveys of variable space in libraries of interfacial modifiers. Critical information relating to the behavior of such mixtures, for example, in the effective removal of soil from clothing, would be available simply by measuring interfacial tension (ILT ) for immiscible solutions with different droplet sizes, a variable not accessible by drop-volume or pendant drop techniques [107]. 

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