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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 23, Issue 14, Pages 8705-8716Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06479c
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP19H04206]
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology [JPMXP0112101003]
- Fugaku Supercomputing Project from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
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Sudden solubilization occurs widely below or around the critical micelle concentration of surfactants, with solutes inducing micellization and increasing the aggregation number of surfactants. Enhanced cooperativity in micellization upon solubilization is driven by surfactant self-association enhanced by solutes, forming a universal mechanism for cooperative solubilization common to hydrotropes and surfactants at low concentrations.
Sudden onset of solubilization is observed widely around or below the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of surfactants. It has also been reported that micellization is induced by the solutes even below CMC and the solubilized solute increases the aggregation number of the surfactant. These observations suggest enhanced cooperativity in micellization upon solubilization. Recently, we have developed a rigorous statistical thermodynamic theory of cooperative solubilization. Its application to hydrotropy revealed the mechanism of cooperative hydrotropy: hydrotrope self-association enhanced by solutes. Here we generalize our previous cooperative solubilization theory to surfactants. We have shown that the well-known experimental observations, such as the reduction of CMC in the presence of the solutes and the increase of aggregation number, are the manifestations of cooperative solubilization. Thus, the surfactant self-association enhanced by a solute is the driving force of cooperativity and a part of a universal cooperative solubilization mechanism common to hydrotropes and surfactants at low concentrations.
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