Structural Evolution of Oleyl Betainate Aggregates: In Situ Formation of Small Unilamellar Vesicles
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2010

Betaine esters prepared from long-chain alcohols are a class of hydrolyzable cationic surfactants that is interesting both because the compounds can be designed to give harmless products on degradation and that the hydrolysis products can induce potentially useful changes in the properties of systems where such surfactants are present. In this work, the evolution in structure of aggregates formed by oleyl betainate during hydrolysis of the compound has been investigated using H-1 NMR and cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM). With an increasing extent of hydrolysis, and thus an increasing fraction of oleyl alcohol in the aggregates, the aggregate structure changes in a sequence consistent with an increase in the average packing parameter of the surfactant-alcohol mixture, from spherical micelles, via wormlike micelles, to vesicles. An important result front this work is that it demonstrates a means of in situ production of small unilamellar vesicles with a rather narrow size distribution.

micellar

deuterium oxide

Long-chain alcohols

systems

surfactant

methyl-ester

aqueous-solution

dodecyl betainate

electron-microscopy

hydrolysis

binding

Författare

Dan Lundberg

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Teknisk ytkemi

M. Almgren

Uppsala universitet

Patrik Jarvoll Dae

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik

G. Karlsson

Uppsala universitet

Langmuir

07437463 (ISSN) 15205827 (eISSN)

Vol. 26 11 7996-8001

Ämneskategorier

Kemi

DOI

10.1021/la904889n

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