Micellar Solutions and Microemulsions: Structure, Dynamics, and Statistical Thermodynamics

✍ Scribed by S.-H. Chen, E. Y. Sheu (auth.), S.-H. Chen, R. Rajagopalan (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During the last decade there has been a renewed interest in research on supramolecular assemblies in solutions, such as micelles and microemulsions, not only because of their extensive applications in industries dealing with catalysts, detergency, biotechnology, and enhanced oil recovery, but also due to the development of new and more powerful experimental and theoretical tools for probing the microscopic behavior of these systems. Prominent among the array of the newly available experimental techniques are photon correlation spectroscopy, small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering, and neutron spin-echo and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies. On the theoretical side, the traditionally emphasized thermodynamic approach to the study of the phase behavior of self-assembled systems in solutions is gradually being replaced by statistical mechanical studies of semi-micro­ scopic and microscopic models of the assemblies. Since the statistical mechanical approach demands as its starting point the microscopic struc­ tural information of the self-assembled system, the experimental determina­ tion of the structures of micelles and microemulsions becomes of paramount interest. In this regard the scattering techniques mentioned above have played an important role in recent years and will continue to do so in the future. In applying the scattering techniques to the supramolecular species in solution, one cannot often regard the solution to be ideal. This is because the inter-aggregate interaction is often long-ranged since it is coulombic in nature and the interparticle correlations are thus appreciable.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Interparticle Correlations in Concentrated Charged Colloidal Solutions — Theory and Experiment....Pages 3-27
Statistical Mechanics of Interacting Double Layers....Pages 29-49
Computer Simulation Studies of the Electrical Double Layer....Pages 51-67
The Ionic Environment of Rod-like Polyelectrolytes....Pages 69-80
Experimental Study of Solvation Forces....Pages 81-97
Statistical Mechanics of Confined Systems: The Solvent-Induced Force Between Smooth Parallel Plates....Pages 99-110
Computer Experiments for Structure and Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Colloidal Fluids....Pages 111-142
Analytical Results for the Scattering Intensity of Concentrated Dispersions of Polydispersed Hard-Sphere Colloids....Pages 143-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Theory of Structure and Phase Transitions in Globular Microemulsions....Pages 161-184
Theory of Thermodynamic Properties and Phase Separation of Self-Associating Micellar Solutions....Pages 185-195
Film Flexibility of Amphiphilic Layers and Structure of Middle-Phase Microemulsions....Pages 197-214
Low Interfacial Tensions in Microemulsion Systems....Pages 215-226
Structure and Properties of Three-Component Microemulsions Near the Critical Point....Pages 227-249
Field Variables and Critical Phenomena in Microemulsions....Pages 251-267
On the Structure of Five-Component Microemulsions....Pages 269-289
Transport Properties of Microemulsions....Pages 291-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-309

✦ Subjects

Physical Chemistry;Theoretical and Computational Chemistry;Thermodynamics;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity