The analysis of the amplitudes in T‐jump experiments on aqueous micellar solutions yields the dependence of the critical micelle concentration and the mean aggregation number m of the micelles on temperature, whereas p‐jump experiments yield the corresponding dependence on pressure. In this paper we have, accordingly, evaluated the dependence of m on the total detergent concentration from stopped‐flow amplitudes (i.e. from concentration‐jump experiments). The experiments were performed on H2O‐NaDS and H2O‐NaDS. It turned out that the mean aggregation number of these detergents appears to increase with increasing detergent concentration, in accord with the results of other authors who have found an increase of m with increasing concentration of an added electrolyte.
In relaxation experiments in aqueous micellar solutions one observes two processes. In order to compare the kinetic data obtained by different methods, these processes were investigated using p‐jump and stopped‐flow as perturbation methods, and conductivity and extinction as detection methods. The agreement is sufficient. — The results for the amplitudes measured in stopped‐flow experiments indicate, that with ionic surfactants the number density of monomers does not remain constant above the cmc, but decreases again with increasing surfactant concentration. The consideration of this fact leads to a qualitative agreement between theory and experiment.
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