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SOFT MATTER
Volume 13, Issue 13, Pages 2543-2548Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7sm00304h
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21573132, 21403151]
- National Basic Research Program [2013CB834505]
- Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of Shanxi Province [2016021045]
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Wormlike micelles were successfully fabricated by the self-assembly of a single-tailed zwitterionic surfac-eactive ionic liquid (SAIL), 3-(1-hexadecyl-3-imidazolio) propanesulfonate beta-naphthalene sulfonate (C16IPS-Nsa), in aqueous solutions without any additives. With increasing zwitterionic SAIL concentration, spontaneous transition from micelles to wormlike micelles and then a hexagonal phase occurs. Interestingly, the wormlike micelles are closed, stretched and directionally arranged, which was rarely found in previous research studies. This kind of wormlike micelle is useful to serve as novel soft template in the synthesis of functional materials. H-1 NMR illustrated that the introduced pi-pi stacking and hydrophobic interactions originated from the hydrophobic aromatic counterions are responsible for the structural transformation. Density functional theory (DFT) simulated the optimum configuration of C16IPS-Nsa and calculated the interaction energy of C16IPS-Nsa-H2O is 39.6 kJ mol(-1). This work paves the way for regulating the self-assembly structures of amphiphiles through changing specific weak interactions.
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