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Structural Relationships between Monomeric Surfactants and Their Aggregates

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We like to discuss in this article several aspects of the self-assembling characteristics of synthetic bilayer membranes. Surfactant molecules spontaneously assemble in water to form various types of aggregates. Two prominent groups of aggregate are micelles and bilayer membranes. Aqueous micelles are spherical or near-spherical globules with the fluid hydrophobic core. They are usually produced from single alkyl-chain amphiphiles. In contrast, many double alkyl-chain amphiphiles undergo spontaneous assemblage to bilayer membranes. Subsequent research efforts established that the spontaneous formation of bilayer membranes is a rather general physicochemical phenomenon. Synthetic bilayers can assume a large variety of aggregate morphologies. They are determined by several structural characteristics. The structural aspects of synthetic bilayer which are described in this article are:

  1. (1)

    Bilayer Formation

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    Component Orientation

  3. (3)

    Surface Curvature

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    Helical Superstructure

  5. (5)

    Dynamics of Morphology

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Kunitake, T. (1985). Structural Relationships between Monomeric Surfactants and Their Aggregates. In: Eicke, HF. (eds) Modern Trends of Colloid Science in Chemistry and Biology. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6513-5_2

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