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The conductances of trimethyltetradecylammonium bromide (TTAB) + trimethylhexa decylammonium bromide (HTAB) and TTAB + trimethyldodecylammonium bromide (DTAB) mixtures over the entire mole fraction range were measured in aqueous poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) containing 1–10 wt% PVP at 30 °C. Each conductivity (κ) curve for the TTAB + HTAB mixtures showed two breaks corresponding to two aggregation processes over the whole mole fraction range, except in the case of pure TTAB, where a single break corresponding to the conventional critical micelle concentration (cmc) was observed. In the case of TTAB + DTAB mixtures, each κ curve at a particular mole fraction of TTAB showed only one break, which was quite close to a similar one in pure water. In TTAB + HTAB mixtures, the first break is called the critical aggregation concentration. It is close to the conventional cmc and is attributed to the polymer-free micelle formation, whereas the second break is due to the polymer-bound micellar aggregates. However, no polymer-bound micellar aggregation process was observed in the case of TTAB + DTAB mixtures. Therefore, the presence of micelle–PVP interactions in the TTAB + HTAB case have been attributed to the stronger hydrophobicity of HTAB or TTAB + HTAB micelles in comparison to that of single or mixed micelles of TTAB + DTAB mixtures. From the conductivity data, various micelle parameters in the presence of PVP have been computed and discussed in terms of micelle–polymer interactions. The mixing behavior of TTAB + HTAB corresponding to the first break, and that of TTAB + DTAB mixtures in the presence of PVP, is close to ideal and is also identical to that in pure water.
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Received: 26 August 1999 Accepted: 6 November 1999
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Bakshi, M. Interactions between cationic mixed micelles and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone). Colloid Polym Sci 278, 524–531 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003960050550
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003960050550