Growth of Mixed Nonionic Micelles
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Static and quasielastic light-scattering measurements were utilized to investigate the shape, size, and polydispersity of mixed micelles composed of the nonionic surfactants dodecyl hexaoxyethylene glycol monoether (C12E6) and dodecyl octaoxyethylene glycol monoether (C12E8) in aqueous solutions. We determined the molecular weight and diffusion coefficient of these micelles and showed that they are rodlike. The average diffusion coefficient of the mixed micelles was measured at various total surfactant concentrations in the range between approximately 30 and 1000 times the critical micellar concentration of the surfactant mixture. Pure C12E6, pure C12E8, and three different mixtures of C12E6 and C12E8 were studied in the temperature range10 °CeTe55 °C. We found that themixedmicelles couldbesatisfactorally described as prolate ellipsoids with an average long axis which grows in size as the total surfactant concentration increases. The extent of this growth is more pronounced when the relative proportion of C12E6 in solution is increased or as the temperature approaches the boundary of phase transition into coexisting micelle-rich and micelle-poor phases. We propose a phenomenological model to quantitatively describe the linear growth of rodlike mixed micelles. Two parameters of this model which control the observed linear growth of the mixed C12E6 and C12E8 micelles were deduced from the experimental data and compared with the values predicted by a recently developed molecular-thermodynamic theory of mixed micellization.
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