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All-atom molecular dynamics analysis of kinetic and structural properties of ionic micellar solutions

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All-atom molecular dynamics simulation results regarding aqueous sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) solutions have been presented. Both salt-free solutions with different SDS concentrations and those containing calcium chloride additives have been studied. The simulation has shown that surface-active SDS ions form stable premicellar aggregates. The obtained molecular dynamics trajectories have been used to describe both the kinetic and structural properties of solutions containing SDS molecular aggregates and the properties of individual aggregates. Aggregation kinetics has been investigated, and the characteristic sizes of the aggregates have been calculated by different methods. It has been found that the size of a premicellar aggregate with aggregation number n = 16 in a salt-free solution virtually does not depend on surfactant concentration. Radial distribution functions (RDFs) of hydrogen and oxygen atoms of water molecules relative to the center of mass of an aggregate have no local maxima near the aggregate surface; i.e., the surface is incompletely wetted with water. Corresponding RDFs of carbon atoms have one, two or three maxima depending on the surfactant concentration and the serial number of a carbon atom in the hydrocarbon radical of the surface- active ion. The study of the potentials of mean force for the interaction of sodium and calcium ions with an aggregate having aggregation number n = 32 shows that only calcium ions can be strongly bound to such an aggregate.

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Original Russian Text © N.A. Volkov, N.V. Tuzov, A.K. Shchekin, 2017, published in Kolloidnyi Zhurnal, 2017, Vol. 79, No. 2, pp. 124–133.

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Volkov, N.A., Tuzov, N.V. & Shchekin, A.K. All-atom molecular dynamics analysis of kinetic and structural properties of ionic micellar solutions. Colloid J 79, 181–189 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061933X17020156

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