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The order parameters as well as the rates of overall and internal motions of aggregated surfactants can be obtained from deuteron and carbon-13 nuclear relaxation experiments. The main contribution to the relaxation is generally the quadrupolar coupling (2H) or the short range dipolar interaction with protons (13C). In some cases it is convenient to derive the same information from the13C relaxation induced by long range dipolar interactions with a paramagnetic probe exchanging rapidly among the polar heads of surfactant molecules. This paper outlines the methods of interpretation of relaxation data by means of a rotational jump model of internal motions, taking into account most of the accessible conformers. The conformational and dynamical parameters are obtained from the magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal relaxation rates (micelles) or from the simultaneous fit of these rates and of the dipolar or quadrupolar splittings (liquid crystals). Some examples of application of these methods are given from recent works on single and double detailed surfactants.
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Chachaty, C. Conformations and dynamics of surfactants in micelles and liquid crystals by nuclear magnetic relaxation. Mol Eng 2, 65–94 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00999523
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