title: Light scattering from hydrophobe-uptake spherical micelles near the critical micelle concentration.
abstract: We have investigated aqueous micellar solutions of mixtures of a surfactant (dodecylpyridinium chloride) and a hydrophobe (1-dodecanol) near the critical micelle concentration (cmc), using simultaneous static and dynamic light scattering measurements. The static light scattering intensity for the aqueous solutions was separated into fast and slow relaxation components using dynamic light scattering results. The slow relaxation component gave us the information about the large scattering component. It turned out from this component that the amount of large colloidal particles of the hydrophobe was very tiny in the solution and hardly affects the association-dissociation equilibrium of the hydrophobe-uptake micelle. The free surfactant molecule and the hydrophobe-uptake spherical micelle in the solutions belong to the fast relaxation component. We have characterized the spherical micelle and also analyzed the association-dissociation equilibrium of the hydrophobe-uptake micelle up to near the cmc, using this scattering component extracted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Macromolecular Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University , 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morishima
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato