Contiguous versus segmented hydrophobicity in micellar systems

FM Menger, AL Galloway

Index: Menger, Fredric M.; Galloway, Ashley L. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004 , vol. 126, # 48 p. 15883 - 15889

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Abstract

This paper addresses a question not yet posed systematically in surfactant chemistry: How do the colloidal properties of surfactants respond to insertion of non-hydrocarbon functionalities (ie, ester groups) within chains that are normally entirely hydrocarbon? In answering this question, two classes of such chain-modified surfactants were discovered. One class forms only small aggregates with noncooperative self-assembly, low foaming, ...