“…The factors include the chemical structure of surfactant molecules [5][6][7][8], such as the nature of headgroups and the nature of counterions, and the solution conditions [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18], such as concentration, temperature, the pH, the ionic strength, and the presence of additives. The nature of surfactant counterion or the nature of counterions from the salts added to the surfactant solution [3][4][5][9][10][11][12][13][14][19][20][21][22][23] significantly affects the cmc, micelle size, micelle shape, micellar catalysis, emulsion size, interfacial property, rheological property, phase behavior, etc. For the single ionic surfactants, counterions stabilize ionic surfactant micelles by binding to the micellar surface and screening the electrostatic repulsion between the surfactant headgroups [6,[8][9][10][11][12], thus the binding affinity of counterions influences both the process of micellization and aggregation.…”