title: Self-assembly of chlorophenols in water.
abstract: In saturated solutions of some di- and trichlorophenols, structures with complex morphologies, consisting of thin, transparent sheets often coiling into helices and ultimately twisting into filaments, were observed under the optical microscope. Freeze-fracture electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, phase diagrams, and molecular modeling were performed to elucidate the observed phenomena. Here, we present evidence that the chlorophenols studied, when interacting with water, self-assemble into bilayers. The fact that some chlorophenols form the same supramolecular structures as those described previously for structurally nonrelated surfactants sheds light on the mechanisms of self-assembly.
authors.affiliation: Equipe de Physico-Chimie des Colloides, UMR 7565 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Universite Henri Poincare Nancy I, Faculte des Sciences, BP239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rogalska
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rogalski
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gulik-Krzywicki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gulik
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chipot