Thermodynamic parameters and counterion binding to the micelle in binary anionic surfactant systems

Competitive counterion binding of sodium and calcium to micelles, and mixed micellization have been investigated in the systems sodium dodecylsulfate (NaDS)/sodium decylsulfate (NaDeS) and NaDS/sodium 4-octylbenzenesulfonate (NaOBS) in order to accurately model the activity of the relevant species in solution. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) and equilibrium micelle compositions of mixtures of these anionic surfactants, which is necessary for determining fractional counterion binding measurements, is thermodynamically modeled by regular solution theory. The mixed micelle is ideal (the regular solution parameter β(M)=0) for the NaDS/NaOBS system, while the mixed micelle for NaDS/NaDeS has β(M)=-1.05 indicating a slight synergistic interaction. Counterion binding of sodium to the micelle is influenced by the calcium ion concentration, and vice versa. However, the total degree of counterion binding is essentially constant at approximately 0.65 charge negation at the micelle's surface. The counterion binding coefficients can be quantitatively modeled using a simple equilibrium model relating concentrations of bound and unbound counterions.     

Aggregation Number of Ionic Surfactants and its Application for Alkyltrimethyl Ammonium Bromides and Sodium Tetradecyl Sulfate by Potentiometric Technique

A potentiometric technique based on surfactant ion selective electrode has been used for various cationic and anionic surfactants. The data obtained contain m ₁ (surfactant monomer concentration); m ₂ (free counterion concentration) and α (degree of dissociation of micelle) were used for determination of aggregation number at and above cmc (critical micelle concentration). Data fitting show a relationship between aggregation number with such parameters. The correlation equation obtained shows that size of ionic micelle vary sharply after cmc. Also, the equation obtained shows size of micelle growth with increase in counterion concentration.     

Counterion exchange selectivity coefficients at water-in-oil microemulsion interface

The counterion binding at a water/Aerosol-OT (AOT)/heptane microemulsion interface was treated in the context of the pseudo-phase ion exchange formalism. Two approaches were used to determine the selectivity coefficient for copper/sodium counterion binding at the AOT microemulsion interface: measurements of the Cu(II) concentration taken up by the reverse micelle in a Winsor II microemulsion system and steady-state emission quenching measurements of an anionic water-solubilized probe, the tris-(4,4'-dicarboxy-2,2'-bipyridine) ruthenium (II) ion. In addition, the selectivity coefficient for methyl viologen/sodium at the microemulsion surface was determined by the same photophysical technique. The value for copper (II)/sodium exchange (K(Cu/Na)) is 1.1+/-0.3 and that for methyl viologen/sodium (K(MV/Na)) is 0.9+/-0.3. The results show that the pseudo-phase ion exchange model can be used to obtain the selectivity coefficient in a microemulsion system.     

An Assessment of the Aggregation and Adsorption Behavior of the Sodium Dodecylsulfate–Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide Mixed Surfactant System in Aqueous Medium

Sodium dodecylsulfate and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide mixtures are important catanionic systems, as they have an inherent tendency to form vesicle structures. Despite extensive studies on the phase behavior and microstructures, there is dearth of basic information on the aggregation and adsorption behavior of this mixed system. In this work the critical micelle concentration, surface tension reduction effectiveness, surface excess, mixed micelle and monolayer compositions, activity coefficients, interaction parameters, counterion binding and Gibbs energy terms of this mixed system are determined by measuring its surface tension and conductance as a function of composition. The dependence of mixed micelle composition on surfactant concentration has been successfully demonstrated.     

CTMAB胶束体系中反离子缔合度的测定

对十六烷基三甲基淡化按（CTMAB）水胶束体系，不同方法测得其反离子缔合度产值不同【‘－＼且很高于由股团电化学理论所得q值0．67问．本文以离子选择性电极法测定CTMAB水胶束体系中反离子缩合度（仁0．65），并研究了外加盐和乙醇的影响·1实验部分1．工试剂和仪器十六烷基三甲基漠化技（CP）在无水乙醇中重结晶两次，纯化物经帕环法测其表面张力在CMC附近无最低声、·淡化钾（AR），水为。次蒸馏水，PXJIC型离子计，302型PB，电极（响应范围为PB，＝1．6～3．3，响应时间为5分钟）222型甘汞电极·1．2实验方法在CMCV／de的稀…     

Micellization of AOT in aqueous sodium chloride, sodium acetate, sodium propionate, and sodium butyrate media: a case of two different concentration regions of counterion binding

Critical micelle concentrations of AOT in water in the presence of sodium chloride, sodium acetate, sodium propionate, and sodium butyrate were determined at 25 degrees C by the surface tension method. The co-ions do not have any effect on the value of critical micelle concentration. The surface density of AOT at the air-water interface increases in the presence of added electrolyte and attains a maximum value of 2.5+/-0.1 mol m-2 at a particular electrolyte concentration which is different for sodium chloride and the other three electrolytes. From the Corrin-Harkins plot it has been found that for AOT micelles the counterion binding constant has values 0.40 and 0.82 below and above approximately 0.015 mol kg-1 electrolyte concentration (c*), respectively. Measurement of sodium ion activity from the EMF method has confirmed such a shift in the counterion binding constant of AOT at c*. The higher value of the counterion binding constant for AOT has been reported for the first time. From fluorescence spectroscopy it has been found that the aggregation number of AOT is 22 in water and its average aggregation numbers in the presence of electrolytes are about 34 and 136 below and above c*, respectively. The increase by a factor of 2 in the counterion binding constant is shown to be due to a change in the shape of the AOT micelles around c*. The shape of AOT micelles in the electrolyte concentration range c* is inferred to be oblate spheroid and a change from this shape appears to occur above c*. A sudden increase in the polarity of the micelle-solution interface is also observed above c*.     

Aggregation and adsorption of sodium dioctylsulfosuccinate in aqueous ammonium chloride solution: role of mixed counterions

The critical micelle concentration (cmc) of sodium dioctylsulfosuccinate (AOT) was determined at 25 °C from surface tension and fluorescence methods in aqueous NH(4)Cl solution for assessing the influence of mixed counterions on the special counterion binding behavior (SCB) of AOT. The SCB of AOT refers to a sudden twofold increase in the value of the counterion binding constant (β) in aqueous medium when the concentration (c(*)) of the added 1:1 sodium salt is about 0.015 mol kg(-1), and it has been tested so far for sodium ion only. In the presence of sodium and ammonium mixed counterions also the SCB of AOT exist, but with lower c(*) (0.009 mol kg(-1) NH(4)Cl). Synergism in the cmc occurs due to mixed counterions. In the case of inorganic counterions, unlike the case with organic counterions, the cmc is dependent on the total counterion concentration in solution and negligibly on the specific type of counterion. Na(+) and NH(4)(+) bind almost equally to the micelle in the region of low β (below c(*)), but in the region of high β (above c(*)) NH(4)(+) binds predominantly. It has been shown that the theoretical expression for the surface excess of ionic surfactant+electrolyte system containing a single counterion can also be used to evaluate the surface excess in the presence of mixed counterions if the two counterions are considered to undergo Henry-type adsorption at the air-solution interface.     

Miscibility of sodium chloride and ionic surfactant in adsorbed film and aggregate

The adsorption, micelle formation, and salting-out of dodecylammonium chloride in the presence of NaCl were studied from the viewpoint of mixed adsorption and aggregate formation. The surface tension of aqueous solutions of a NaCl–dodecylammonium chloride mixture was measured as a function of the total molality and composition of the mixture. Judging from phase diagrams of mixed adsorption and aggregate formation, NaCl and dodecylammonium chloride are miscible in the adsorbed film and coagel particle at high NaCl concentrations due to specific (nonelectrostatic) interaction between dodecylamonium ion and the counterion, while they are immiscible in the micelle. The difference in miscibility among the oriented states was ascribed to the difference in geometry among the states and to the interaction between bilayers in a coagel particle. Miscibility and specific interaction are compared between the mixtures of NaCl with dodecylammonium chloride and sodium dodecylsulfate.     

The Correlation of the Degree of Counterion Binding with the Composition of Ionic–Nonionic Mixed Micelles

Two simple expressions for calculating the degree of counterion binding of mixed micelles are presented. These approximate expressions for the spherical micelle are derived from the relationship of the degree of counterion binding with the surface charge density. One of them works quite well for the estimation of the degree of counterion binding of mixed micelles when the mole fraction of the ionic component in mixed micelles is high.     

USE OF A pH-STAT DILUTION TO DETERMINE CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATIONS AND COUNTERION CONCENTRATIONS OF IONIC MICELLES1

The use of a pH-stat to determine the critical micelle concentration (c.m.c.) of ionic micellar solutions is described. Counterion is released with the dilution of an ionic micellar solution at all concentrations above the c.m.c. The titration of the released counterion permits the evaluation of the c.m.c. and the associated amount of counterion for any concentration above the c.m.c. The diluent is the same medium in which the micelle is dissolved. Thus any ionic strength, ion composition, or pH may be used. Examples of the method to determine the c.m.c. of promethazine hydrochloride in water and of tetracaine hydrochloride in 0.128 N NaCl as a function of pH are given. Also the c.m.c of promethazine hydrochloride - Tween 80 mixtures was examined as a function of mole fraction.     

The Kemp elimination in membrane mimetic reaction media. Probing catalytic properties of cationic vesicles formed from a double-tailed amphiphile and linear long-tailed alcohols or alkyl pyranosides

Vesicles formed from synthetic, double-tailed amphiphiles are often used as mimics for biological membranes. However, biological membranes are a complex mixture of various compounds. In the present paper we describe a first attempt to study the importance of additives on vesicular catalysis. The rate-determining deprotonation of 5-nitrobenzisoxazole (Kemp elimination) by hydroxide ion is efficiently catalysed by vesicles formed from dimethyldi-n-octadecylammonium chloride (C(18)C(18)(+)) as a result of (partial) dehydration of the reactants (especially the hydroxide ion) at the vesicular binding sites. Gradual addition of linear alcohols, such as n-decanol (C(10)OH), n-octadecanol (C(18)OH) and batyl alcohol (C(18)GlyOH) leads to a decrease in the observed catalysis. By contrast, gradual addition of oleyl alcohol, n-dodecyl-beta-glucoside (C(12)Glu) and n-dodecyl-beta-maltoside (C(12)Mal) leads to an increase in the observed catalysis. A detailed kinetic analysis, taking into account substrate binding site polarities, counterion binding percentages and binding affinity of the kinetic probe, suggests that the catalytic changes depend strongly on subtle changes in the structure of the additive. Whereas the C(12)Glu-induced effect can be explained by an increase in the vesicular rate constant, the effect of C(12)Mal can only be explained by an increase in the binding constant of the kinetic probe. However, for these pyranoside-containing vesicles others factors, such as a more extensive dehydration of the hydroxide ion, and micelle formation have to be considered. For the linear alcohols, besides a decrease in the counterion binding, changes in the vesicular rate constant and the binding constant should be taken into account. These two parameters change to a different extent for the different alcohols. The kinetic analysis is supported by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), E(T)(30) absorbance data and Nile Red, Laurdan, ANS and pyrene fluorescence measurements.The overall kinetic results are illustrative for the highly complex mix of factors which determines catalytic effects on reactions occurring in biological cell membranes.     

The critical micelle concentration of tetraethylammonium perfluorooctylsulfonate in water

The aggregation characteristics of tetraethylammonium perfluorooctylsulfonate in water were studied by several techniques: conductivity, pH, ion-selective electrodes, and surface tension. It was concluded that the aggregation process is gradual and starts with the formation of oligomers such as ion pairs that grow to give spherical micelles, which become wormlike with increasing concentration. Because of the size and hydrophobicity of the counterion, micelles quickly increase in ionization degree up to about 0.5. Differences among different critical micelle concentration values in the literature are explained on the basis of the gradual formation of micelles.     

Structural organization of cetyltrimethylammonium sulfate in aqueous solution: The effect of Na2SO4

We used dynamic light scattering (DLS), steady-state fluorescence, time resolved fluorescence quenching (TRFQ), tensiometry, conductimetry, and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) to investigate the self-assembly of the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium sulfate (CTAS) in aqueous solution, which has SO(2-)4 as divalent counterion. We obtained the critical micelle concentration (cmc), aggregation number (N(agg)), area per monomer (a0), hydrodynamic radius (R(H)), and degree of counterion dissociation (alpha) of CTAS micelles in the absence and presence of up to 1 M Na2SO4 and at temperatures of 25 and 40 degrees C. Between 0.01 and 0.3 M salt the hydrodynamic radius of CTAS micelle R(H) approximately 16 A is roughly independent on Na2SO4 concentration; below and above this concentration range R(H) increases steeply with the salt concentration, indicating micelle structure transition, from spherical to rod-like structures. R(H) increases only slightly as temperature increases from 25 to 40 degrees C, and the cmc decreases initially very steeply with Na2SO4 concentration up to about 10 mM, and thereafter it is constant. The area per surfactant at the water/air interface, a0, initially increases steeply with Na2SO4 concentration, and then decreases above ca. 10 mM. Conductimetry gives alpha = 0.18 for the degree of counterion dissociation, and N(agg) obtained by fluorescence methods increases with surfactant concentration but it is roughly independent of up to 80 mM salt. The ITC data yield cmc of 0.22 mM in water, and the calculated enthalpy change of micelle formation, Delta H(mic) = 3.8 kJ mol(-1), Gibbs free energy of micellization of surfactant molecules, Delta G(mic) = -38.0 kJ mol(-1) and entropy TDelta S(mic) = 41.7 kJ mol(-1) indicate that the formation of CTAS micelles is entropy-driven.     

Estimation of micellization parameters of sodium dodecyl sulfate in water+1-butanol using the mixed electrolyte model for molar conductance

The mixed electrolyte model of Shanks and Franses has been applied to estimate the critical micelle concentration, aggregation number, and counterion binding constant of sodium dodecyl sulfate in a water + 1-butanol medium from its measured conductivity data at 25 degrees C. The surface potential of the ionic micelle in this mixed solvent medium was computed by solving the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation. The standard free energy terms of micellization were also calculated. The present study confirms further the observation made in the previous studies that ionic micelles do not contribute to the ionic strength of a surfactant solution, an inference originally made by McBain and coworkers.     

An Approximate Expression for the Degree of Counterion Binding of Dressed Micelles

A simple formula for calculating the degree of counterion binding of dressed micelles is presented. This approximate expression for the spherical micelle is derived from the extending Langmuir's method in the case of high surface potentials. It works quite well for the estimation of the degree of counterion binding of micelles. The simple form is very convenient for practical use.     

Counterion condensation and release in micellar solutions

Counterion condensation and release in micellar solutions are investigated by direct measurement of counterion concentration with ion-selective electrode. Monte Carlo simulations based on the cell model are also performed to analyze the experimental results. The degree of counterion condensation is indicated by the concentration ratio of counterions in the bulk to the total ionic surfactant added, alpha< or =1. The ionic surfactant is completely dissociated below the critical micelle concentration (cmc). However, as cmc is exceeded, the free counterion ratio alpha declines with increasing the surfactant concentration and approaches an asymptotic value owing to counterion condensation to the surface of the highly charged micelles. Micelle formation leads to much stronger electrostatic attraction between the counterion and the highly charged sphere in comparison to the attraction of single surfactant ion with its counterion. A simple model is developed to obtain the true degree of ionization, which agrees with our Monte Carlo results. Upon addition of neutral polymer or monovalent salts, some of the surfactant counterions are released to the bulk. The former is due to the decrease of the intrinsic charge (smaller aggregation number) and the degree of ionization is increased. The latter is attributed to competitive counterion condensation, which follows the Hefmeister series. This consequence indicates that the specific ion effect plays an important role next to the electrostatic attraction.     

Nonideal mixing of dodecyltrimethylammonium halides and nonionic surfactant in adsorbed films and micelles

The ion–dipole interaction between dodecyltrimethylammonium cations and nonionic surfactant molecules in adsorbed films and micelles was investigated by concentrating on the difference in the degree of counterion binding by employing dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride (DTAC)–octyl methyl sulfoxide (OMS) and dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB)–OMS mixtures. The phase diagrams of adsorption and micelle formation were constructed and then the nonideal mixing of different species of surfactants was demonstrated in terms of the excess Gibbs free energies of adsorption and micelle formation, and the surface excess areas. Furthermore the dependence of them on the counterion was clearly shown. All these results were found to support our previous view that the direct interaction between surfactant cation and the dipole of the hydrophilic part of a nonionic surfactant is essential in cationic-nonionic surfactant mixtures, i.e., the DTAC system with a lower counterion biding has more negative excess thermodynamic quantities than the DTAB system with a higher one.     

Counterion binding on mixed anionic/cationic micelles

Measurements of counterion binding in mixtures of surfactant aqueous solutions have been performed to study the structure of the anionic/cationic mixed micelle/solution interface. The mixtures studied were SDS/DDAC and STS/TDPC. The binding of chloride and sodium ions to mixed anionic/cationic micelles was measured using ion-specific electrodes. Counterion binding was found to be strongly dependent on the molar ratio of surfactants present. The mixed micelle/solution interface includes the headgroups of both surfactants and counterions of surfactant in excess. The addition of oppositely charged surfactant caused an increasing dissociation of counterions.