On the concept of percolative conduction in water-in-oil microemulsions

Autor: Charlly Mathew, Phool Kumar Patanjali, Amarnath Maitra, Afzal Nabi
Rok vydání: 1988
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Zdroj: Colloids and Surfaces. 30:253-263
ISSN: 0166-6622
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6622(88)80210-5
Popis: The percolative conduction behaviour of water-in-oil microemulsion systems containing additives (H 2 O/AOT/additive/isooctane) have been examined at different temperatures. Additives like n-propanol and gramicidin, which are known to increase membrane permeability, lower the percolation threshold temperature while cholesterol, which increases membrane rigidity, shifts the percolation threshold to a higher temperature. It has been concluded from the results that percolative conduction is also a measure of membrane permeability of the surfactant monolayer of the droplets and the hard-sphere model concept seems to be still valid at the percolation points.
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