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LANGMUIR
Volume 24, Issue 8, Pages 3759-3766Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la703515j
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The spontaneous self-assembly of unilamellar vesicles was investigated by means of time-resolved synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering. The self-assembly process was initiated by rapid mixing of anionic surfactant micelles with either zwitterionic or cationic surfactant micelles in equimolar ratio using a stopped-flow device. For the zwitteranionic systems, transient disklike mixed micelles are observed as structural intermediates prior to the onset of vesiculation. These disklike micelles display an exponential growth law, and above a critical size they close to form unilamellar vesicles. In the catanionic system, the earliest observable structures within the mixing time of 4 ins are unilamellar vesicles. Nevertheless, in both systems a narrow distribution of the vesicle size was observed at the initial stages of their formation. The Subsequent evolution of the vesicle size distribution depends on the subtle differences in the bilayer composition and properties.
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