Light scattering evidence for a critical behavior in microemulsions

Fourche, Georges; Belloco, Anne-Marie; Brunetti, S.

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“…For sake of completeness it is useful to remember that critical phenomena have been found to play an important role in microemulsions also. [19][20][21][22][23][24] Similarly to the case of micellar solutions, a considerable debate exists about the nature of the transition and about the possibility that the droplet picture may still be adopted as the critical point is approached.…”

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Cloud point transition in nonionic micellar solutions

Corti¹,

Minero²,

Degiorgio³

1984

J. Phys. Chem.

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309 Figure 9. Shematic representations for possible structures of a bound monomer (a), a bound racemic aggregate (b), and a bound enantiomeric aggregate (c). The ligands in Cop2+ are represented by two ovals around a small open circle. The shaded and unshaded parts denote the portion of a ligand directed downward and upward from the paper, respectively. below the possible structures of the bound states on the basis of the calculations.For a bound monomer state, the experimental values of pI and pIr (+1.10 and -0.40 in Table I, respectively) were reproduced from the curves in Figure 8, if a and @(E) were chosen as 0' and 0.4, respectively. Under this conformation, it was possible for each of the naphthalene rings in Cop2+ to penetrate between the two neighboring styrenesulfonate residues. Accordingly the bound chelate would be stabilized due to the van der Waals interactions between the naphthalene of COP,+ and the benzene rings of PSS-. The hydrophobicity of PSS-as seen here was already noted by other investigator^.'^ For a racemic aggregate state, the experimental pI and. pII (+0.43 and +O. 10, respectively) corresponded to the theoretical values at a = 35O and @(E) = 0.4. If (+)-Cop2+ and (-)-Cop,+ (13) Tondre, C.; Kale, K. M.; Zana, R. Eur. Polymn. J. 1978, 14, 139.were placed alternatively along the Y axis under this conformation as shown in Figure 9b, the two facing ligands belonging to the neighboring chelates stacked preferably with each other. As a result, the racemic aggregate established a rigid rodlike structure. This explains why the racemic mixture attained a stereoregular racemic aggregate as the most thermodynamically stable state.For an enantiomeric aggregate state, the experimental pI and prI (+0.21 and +0.25, respectively) were reproduced by choosing a = 45' and @(E) = 0.4. When (+)-Cop,+ ions were placed along the Y axis with a = 45' in a sequence, no notable stacking appeared between the neighboring ligands. If, however, one chelate was placed at a = 45' and the other at a = -45' instead, the two ligands in the neighboring chelates stacked to a certain degree (Figure 9c).I4 The relative orientations of the stacking ligands were not so favored that the enantiomeric aggregate was much looser than the racemic aggregate.The stopped-flow experiments revealed the presence of an intermediate state during the course of formation of a racemic aggregate. The intermediate aggregate was formed about 4 ms after mixing when the initial rapid increase of absorbance was completed. It is suspected that, in such an intermediate state, the (+) and (-) isomers take a random distribution on the PSSchain. Accordingly, the sequence could not attain a close stacking as a whole. If this was the case, the succeeding slow step in the time range of 1-lo2 s might represent the process that the bound chelates rearranged on each polymer chain until the alternative sequence of (-)-Cop2+ and (+)-Cop2+ was realized. At that stage, the loosely bound aggregate changed into a rigid stereoregular racemic aggregate. This mechanism ...

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Cloud point transition in nonionic micellar solutions

Corti¹,

Minero²,

Degiorgio³

1984

J. Phys. Chem.

347

200

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“…This behaviour has been observed in experiments where the system remained monophasic [4, 5, 11, 13, 14, [14]. In the first type of studies the properties of the monophasic system such as the intensity of scattered light [11,17], the diffusion coefficient [17,18], viscosity [13] and ultrasonic absorption [16] were found to increase sharply or to go through a marked maximum at a certain volume fraction oc of the dispersed phase.…”

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“…In 1977, Skoulios and Guillon [2] raised the question as to « how far the formation of microemulsions can be considered as polycritical phenomena ». Since this pioneering paper, a number of studies have been reported [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] which indeed showed a critical-like behaviour of a variety of microemulsions. This behaviour has been observed in experiments where the system remained monophasic [4, 5, 11, 13, 14, [14].…”

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