Reverse Micelle Systems Composed of Water, Triton X-100, and Phospholipids in Organic Solvents

Extraction of bovine serum albumin using nanoparticulate reverse micelles

“…The estimated radius of the reverse micellar core (5.67 nm) for this system was found to be large enough to host BSA molecule that has an approximate radius of 3.5-3.6 nm (assuming it to be spherical). The estimated radius of the reverse micellar core in Triton-X-100/toluene was close to the value (5.52 nm) as measured by Rodriguez et al [25] using Dynamic Light Scattering instrument. Although, the size of the reverse micelle was large enough to host BSA, micellar size was not a sufficient parameter to allow BSA to enter the micelles in large amounts.…”

“…This may be due to the higher ability of toluene (relatively lower molecular weight and more polar) to penetrate between surfactant molecules to increase the size of the reverse micelles. Similar observation was made by Rodriguez et al [25] while studying Triton-X-100 system with toluene and propylbenzene.…”

Micellar phase boundaries under the influence of ethyl alcohol

“…Using the average DAS uncertainty (24.7 %) from the current studies, the 2014 phase boundary was recalculated as ω 0,T = 0.65(16). All of these results are consistent with the observations of Rodríguez, et al (1998), who reported a phase boundary for toluenic TX-100 at ω 0,T = 0.6.…”

“…The region below ω 0,T ≈ 0.7 is thought to correspond to individual water molecules associated with TX-100 molecules; the region above ω 0,T ≈ 5 is the reverse micellar phase (Rodríguez, et al, 1998; Bergeron, 2012; Bergeron, 2014). In the present studies, we inspected the samples visually, looking for the first sign of clouding that indicates the onset of the turbid phase and for the complete clearing of the turbid phase that indicates complete micellization.…”

STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN W/O TRITON X-100/Cyclohexane-Hexanol/Water Microemulsions Probed by a Fluorescent Drug Piroxicam

“…Upon water addition, cyclohexane would be excluded with the consequent size decrease. The same was not detected with a solvent mixture of toluene and propylbenzene leading to closer packing of Trx-100 (51). Hexanol has a strong affinity to the surfactant, and its presence allows the incorporation of higher amounts of water.…”