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García Daza FA, Colville AJ, Mackie AD. Chain architecture and micellization: a mean-field coarse-grained model for poly(ethylene oxide) alkyl ether surfactants. J Chem Phys. 2015;142(11):114902doi: 10.1063/1.4913960.
García Daza, F. A., Colville, A. J., & Mackie, A. D. (2015). Chain architecture and micellization: a mean-field coarse-grained model for poly(ethylene oxide) alkyl ether surfactants. The Journal of chemical physics, 142(11), 114902. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4913960
García Daza, Fabián A, et al. "Chain architecture and micellization: a mean-field coarse-grained model for poly(ethylene oxide) alkyl ether surfactants." The Journal of chemical physics vol. 142,11 (2015): 114902. doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4913960
García Daza FA, Colville AJ, Mackie AD. Chain architecture and micellization: a mean-field coarse-grained model for poly(ethylene oxide) alkyl ether surfactants. J Chem Phys. 2015 Mar 21;142(11):114902. doi: 10.1063/1.4913960. PMID: 25796261.
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J Chem Phys. 2015 Mar 21;142(11):114902. doi: 10.1063/1.4913960.

Chain architecture and micellization: a mean-field coarse-grained model for poly(ethylene oxide) alkyl ether surfactants.

The Journal of chemical physics

Fabián A García Daza, Alexander J Colville, Allan D Mackie

Affiliations

  1. Department d'Enginyeria Química, ETSEQ, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avinguda dels Països Catalans 26, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5000, USA.

PMID: 25796261 DOI: 10.1063/1.4913960

Abstract

Microscopic modeling of surfactant systems is expected to be an important tool to describe, understand, and take full advantage of the micellization process for different molecular architectures. Here, we implement a single chain mean field theory to study the relevant equilibrium properties such as the critical micelle concentration (CMC) and aggregation number for three sets of surfactants with different geometries maintaining constant the number of hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers. The results demonstrate the direct effect of the block organization for the surfactants under study by means of an analysis of the excess energy and entropy which can be accurately determined from the mean-field scheme. Our analysis reveals that the CMC values are sensitive to branching in the hydrophilic head part of the surfactant and can be observed in the entropy-enthalpy balance, while aggregation numbers are also affected by splitting the hydrophobic tail of the surfactant and are manifested by slight changes in the packing entropy.

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