What is the origin of conductivity in water-poor reverse micelles?
Thomas Zemb,
Sandrine Dourdain,
Tobias Lopian
et al.
Abstract:Conductivity of water in oil microemulsions as well as reverse micelles of anionic surfactants depend on cations as charge transporters. We first use the versatile molecular system toluene/diethylhexylphosphate HxNa1−xDEHP/water to investigate the domains in the phase prism in which four molecular mechanisms of conductivity are identified. The reduced molar conductivity varies over six orders of magnitude. In the regime of “reverse micelles”, where all water in the organic phase is bound as first layer of hydr… Show more
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