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COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 282, Issue 4, Pages 402-406Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-003-0941-y
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nonionic surfactant; polyacid-surfactant complex; spin probe; molecular mobility
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The molecular dynamics and the structure of molecular complexes formed by micelles of dodecyl-substituted poly(ethylene glycol) with poly(methacrylic acid) and poly(acrylic acid) in aqueous solutions were studied by viscosimetry, pH measurement, and electron spin resonance spin-probe techniques. At low surfactant concentrations, the conformation of the complex is a compact globule. The local mobility of surfactant molecules in such a complex is much slower than that in the free micelle. At high surfactant concentration, the nonionic micelles and polyacids form hydrophilic associates. The associates have the conformation of extended coils. In an associate, a major part of the micellar poly(ethylene glycol) groups is free. The local mobility of the micellar phase depends on the number of micelles involved in an associate. The mobility of surfactant molecules is slower in the complexes of poly(methacrylic acid) than in the complexes of poly(acrylic acid).
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