13C-NMR Evidence on Amphiphile Lifetime in Reverse (Water-in-Oil) Micelles Formed by a Poloxamer Block Copolymer.
The dynamics of exchange between amphiphile assembled in reverse (water-in-oil) micelles and unimer (free in solution) amphiphile were probed by 13C-NMR spectroscopy in a ternary isothermal system consisting of a poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide) block copolymer (poloxamer), water, and xylene. An upper bound was obtained for the lifetime of a block copolymer molecule within the reverse micelle, using the theoretical treatment of exchange phenomena in NMR which is based on extensions of the Bloch equations. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.
Barreleiro
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Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Lund, S-22100, Sweden
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