Cover Picture: Wetting of Surfactant Solutions by Alkanes (ChemPhysChem 3/2005)

✍ Scribed by Katherine M. Wilkinson; Colin D. Bain; Hiroki Matsubara; Makoto Aratono

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 31 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1439-4235
• DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200590000

✦ Synopsis

The cover picture shows a cut‐away section of an oil droplet on a surfactant solution, in which a lens of oil is in equilibrium with a mixed monolayer of surfactant and oil. The background is a Brewster angle micrograph of a drop of hexadecane on a 1.2 mM solution of dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB), just above the wetting transition. In their article on page 547, Wilkinson et al. show that first‐order wetting transitions in alkanes on surfactant solutions are a general, but not universal, phenomenon.