Assessment of micro-polarity anisotropy as a function of surfactant packing in sodium dodecyl sulphonate-hexane reverse micelles

Xin Peng; Xing-Zhong Yuan; P Somasundaran; Partha Patra

doi:10.1039/c5sm01950h

Assessment of micro-polarity anisotropy as a function of surfactant packing in sodium dodecyl sulphonate-hexane reverse micelles

Soft Matter. 2016 Jan 7;12(1):22-5. doi: 10.1039/c5sm01950h.

Authors

Xin Peng¹, Xing-Zhong Yuan², P Somasundaran³, Partha Patra³

Affiliations

¹ National and Local United Engineering Laboratory for New Petrochemical Materials and Fine Utilization of Resources, Key Laboratory of Resource Fine-Processing and Advanced Materials of Hunan Province and Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, P. R. China and College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China.
² College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China.
³ Langmuir Center for Colloid and Interface Science, Columbia University, New York, 10027, USA. pp2295@columbia.edu.

PMID: 26446876
DOI: 10.1039/c5sm01950h

Abstract

The micro-polarity anisotropy behaviour across the aqueous phase of a SDS (sodium dodecyl sulphonate)-hexane reverse micelle (RM) relies on the SDS packing in the oil-water interfacial self-assembled surfactant structure of the RM.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Alkanesulfonic Acids / chemistry
Anisotropy
Hexanes / chemistry
Micelles*
Surface-Active Agents / chemistry*

Substances

Alkanesulfonic Acids
Hexanes
Micelles
Surface-Active Agents
dodecylsulfonic acid