Computer simulations of wormlike micelles

Johan T. Padding; Wouter K. Den Otter; Wim J. Briels

Computer simulations of wormlike micelles

Johan T. Padding, Wouter K. Den Otter, Wim J. Briels

Complex Fluid Processing

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Abstract

Amphiphilic molecules may self-assemble in a great variety of morphological structures. A convenient parameter, which quantifies the importance of the molecular structure, is the packing parameter, where v is the volume of the hydrophobic tail of the amphiphile, is the area occupied by its hydrophilic head group, and the length of its tail. In dilute solutions micellar structures tend to be spherical for values of the packing parameter around 1/3 and rodlike when is close to 1/2.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Giant Micelles
Subtitle of host publication	Properties and Applications
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	81-108
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Electronic)	9781420007121
ISBN (Print)	9780849373084
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2007

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