Analytical expressions for the direct and reverse fluxes of molecular aggregates over the first and second potential barriers of the aggregation work in the presence of spherical and cylindrical micelles in non-ionic surfactant solution were derived. Expressions for the sum (entering into kinetic equations of micellization) of direct and reverse fluxes of molecular aggregates over the first and second potential barriers of the aggregation work in the vicinity of the final equilibrium state of materially isolated surfactant solution were linearized. In the experimentally important range of the values of overall surfactant concentration in solution where the predominant contribution to the total surfactant amount is introduced by cylindrical micelles, we derived a closed system of two linearized relaxation equations determining the buildup (with time) of experimentally observed total concentrations of spherical and cylindrical micelles in the vicinity of the final equilibrium state of materially isolated surfactant solution. The case of the solutions of such surfactants, for which the spherical shape of a micelle appeared to be unrealizable due to the structure and packing conditions of molecules, was considered separately.

Translated title of the contributionСИСТЕМА РЕЛАКСАЦИОННЫХ УРАВНЕНИЙ ДЛЯ МАТЕРИАЛЬНО ИЗОЛИРОВАННОГО РАСТВОРА ПАВ СО СФЕРИЧЕСКИМИ И ЦИЛИНДРИЧЕСКИМИ МИЦЕЛЛАМИ
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)32-40
Number of pages9
JournalColloid Journal
Volume67
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2005

    Scopus subject areas

  • Surfaces and Interfaces
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Colloid and Surface Chemistry

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