ON IONIC STRENGTH DEPENDENCE OF MICELLE NUMBER .2.
ON IONIC STRENGTH DEPENDENCE OF MICELLE NUMBER .2.
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DOI:
10.1021/j100865a057
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发表时间:
1967-01-01
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通讯作者:
HOLTZER, A
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作者:
EMERSON, MF;HOLTZER, A
One of the most striking features of solutions of de-tergents in water is the existence of a critical micelle concentration (cmc). Since, furthermore, the cmc is a readily measurable property, many efforts have been directed toward obtaining a clear understanding of its physical significance. In an earlier paper1 23 it was shown that the quantity RT In (cmc) is equal to the standard free energy change (AG" jv) for the addition of one more detergent monomer to a micelle which already contains that number of monomers most probable at the cmc (Ñ). This result is independent of assumptions about phase separation and does not require, for its deriva-tion, a detailed statistical-mechanical analysis of micellar solutions. Such an analysis is, however, con-sistent with this conclusion. 4 The standard free energy change in question can be divided, conceptually, into a hydrocarbon contribution and an electrostatic contribution. The latter can be expressed in terms of the magnitude of the electrostatic potential at the micellar surface (\f/b). Thus