Micellization in the presence of polyelectrolyte
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We present a simple model to study micellization of amphiphiles condensed on a rodlike polyion. Although the mean field theory leads to a first order micellization transition for sufficiently strong hydrophobic interactions, the simulations show that no such thermodynamic phase transition exists. Instead, the correlations between the condensed amphiphiles can result in a structure formation very similar to micelles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0103592,
title = {Micellization in the presence of polyelectrolyte},
author = {N. Lemke and Jeferson J. Arenzon and Yan Levin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0103592},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 7 figures