title: Weak Micelle-Like Aggregation in Ternary Liquid Mixtures as Revealed by Conductivity, Surface Tension, and Light Scattering.
abstract: A very small concentration of NaBr is added to ternary, transparent, and thermodynamically stable mixtures of water, ethanol, and octanol. Measuring the electrical conductivity along lines with constant water to ethanol ratios reveals remarkable composition dependencies similar to those found in classical surfactant-based microemulsions. Indeed, light-scattering experiments along the same composition lines and additional surface tension measurements confirm the onset of aggregation and possibly direct, bicontinuous, and reversed structures in these surfactant-free systems such as in classical microemulsions.
authors.affiliation: †Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany.|‡Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, University of Split, Teslina 10/V, 21000, Split, Croatia.
authors.forename: Perica
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bošković
authors.affiliation: ‡Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, University of Split, Teslina 10/V, 21000, Split, Croatia.
authors.forename: Vesna
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sokol
authors.affiliation: §Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule, UMR5257 CEA/CNRS/UM2/ENSCM, Bat 426, Marcoule, France.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zemb
authors.affiliation: †Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Touraud
authors.affiliation: †Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Werner
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kunz