Specific alkali cation effects in the transition from micelles to vesicles through salt addition

Autor: Markus Drechsler, Audrey Renoncourt, J. M. Verbavatz, Pierre Bauduin, Werner Kunz, Nina Vlachy, M. Dubois, Didier Touraud, Barry W. Ninham
Přispěvatelé: Protéines membranaires transductrices d'énergie (PMTE), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics for integrated systems Architecture (TIMA), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés (TIMA), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lentz, Celine
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Langmuir
Langmuir, American Chemical Society, 2007, pp.2376-2381
Langmuir, 2007, pp.2376-2381
ISSN: 0743-7463
1520-5827
Popis: The transition of ionic micelles to vesicles with added salts is explored in this paper. The catanionic surfactant solution was comprised of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) and dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB) with an excess of SDS. The micellar size increased with concentration for all salts. No anion specificity was found, probably because of the excess of SDS. However, when the cation of the added salt was varied, large differences were observed in the hydrodynamic radii of the aggregates. A classification of the cations according to their ability to increase the measured hydrodynamic radii follows a Hofmeister series. The change in aggregate size can be explained by modified counterion binding and dehydration of the surfactant headgroups.
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