Importance of Micellar Kinetics in Relation to Technological Processes

On the predictions and limitations of the Becker–Döring model for reaction kinetics in micellar surfactant solutions

“…The associated relaxation times differ by at least three orders of magnitude, with monomer loss occurring on the µs-ms timescale and complete micelle breakdown on the msminutes timescale [10]. Aniansson et al [3] showed how their model could be used to fit Lang's experimental data and extract information about the aggregate distribution, and the theory has since been applied by numerous experimentalists [8,14,17,23,24,28,39].…”

Mass Transfer of Water-insoluble Organic Compound from Octadecylsilyl-silica Gel into Water in the Presence of a Nonionic Surfactant

“…Therefore, the intraparticle diffusion, such as the surface diffusion of perylene, will be fast. 4,9 On the other hand, since the micelle formation and dissolution rates for Triton X-100 are much faster than the release rate in the present system, 22 they are also not the ratedetermining step for the release of perylene.…”

Fundamentals of micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC)

“…Hence, when surfactants are dissolved in aqueous medium, they spontaneously form supramolecular aggregates of various shapes [30][31][32][33], few of them are shown in Figure 6.…”