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Relaxation times and modes of disturbed aggregate distribution in micellar solutions with fusion and fission of micelles. / Zakharov, A.I.; Adzhemyan, L.T.; Shchekin, A.K.
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T1 - Relaxation times and modes of disturbed aggregate distribution in micellar solutions with fusion and fission of micelles
AU - Zakharov, A.I.
AU - Adzhemyan, L.T.
AU - Shchekin, A.K.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We have performed direct numerical calculations of the kinetics of relaxation in the system of surfac- tant spherical micelles under joint action of the molecular mechanism with capture and emission of individual surfactant molecules by molecular aggregates and the mechanism of fusion and fission of the aggregates. As a basis, we have taken the difference equations of aggregation and fragmentation in the form of the generalized kinetic Smoluchowski equations for aggregate concentrations. The calculations have been made with using the droplet model of molecular surfactant aggregates and two modified Smoluchowski models for the coefficients of aggregate-monomer and aggregate-aggregate fusions which take into account the effects of the aggregate size and presence of hydrophobic spots on the aggregate surface. A full set of relaxation times and corresponding relaxation modes for nonequilibrium aggregate distribution in the aggregation number has been found. The dependencies of these relaxation times and modes on
AB - We have performed direct numerical calculations of the kinetics of relaxation in the system of surfac- tant spherical micelles under joint action of the molecular mechanism with capture and emission of individual surfactant molecules by molecular aggregates and the mechanism of fusion and fission of the aggregates. As a basis, we have taken the difference equations of aggregation and fragmentation in the form of the generalized kinetic Smoluchowski equations for aggregate concentrations. The calculations have been made with using the droplet model of molecular surfactant aggregates and two modified Smoluchowski models for the coefficients of aggregate-monomer and aggregate-aggregate fusions which take into account the effects of the aggregate size and presence of hydrophobic spots on the aggregate surface. A full set of relaxation times and corresponding relaxation modes for nonequilibrium aggregate distribution in the aggregation number has been found. The dependencies of these relaxation times and modes on
KW - micelle aggregation kinetics
U2 - 10.1063/1.4931413
DO - 10.1063/1.4931413
M3 - Article
VL - 143
SP - 124902
JO - Journal of Chemical Physics
JF - Journal of Chemical Physics
SN - 0021-9606
IS - 12
ER -
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