Ultrasonic relaxation studies of mixed micelles formed from alcohol-decyltrimethylammonium bromide-water

Autor: Emilio Aicart, D. J. Jobe, Ronald E. Verrall, Bohdan Skalski
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 96:6811-6817
ISSN: 1541-5740
0022-3654
DOI: 10.1021/j100195a051
Popis: This paper discusses how ultrasonic relaxation and conductance studies of alcohol (1-pentanol or 1-butanol)-DTAB-water mixed micelles reveal two relaxation frequencies related to the exchange of monomer surfactant and of alcohol between the micelles and the bulk phase. Conductance and time-resolved fluorescence measurements were used to obtain the alcohol distribution coefficients, micelle ionization, critical micellar concentration, and the alcohol and surfactant mean aggregation numbers. Using two models (Aniansson and Hall & Wyn-Jones), information about the forward and backward rate constants, polydispersity of the mixed micelles and the change in volumes of the two exchange processes are obtained and compared with 1-propanol-DTAB-water. Alcohol chain length influence on thermodynamics and kinetics is also discussed. 16 refs., 12 figs., 6 tabs.
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