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Interfacial charge transport in water-in-oil microemulsions stabilized by ionic-non-ionic surfactant mixtures
1Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Dept. Chemie, Universität Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Interfacial charge transport and mobility have been studied in system-spanning nanodroplet clusters formed in water-in-oil microemulsions stabilized by non-ionic-ionic surfactant mixtures. An unexpectedly large reduction in the counterion mobility was derived from a two-step adsorption process which described the Langmuir-plot-like conductivity isotherm remarkably well. It also conformed very satisfactorily to mobility data of the sodium bis-2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate (AOT) counterion derived from frequency-dependent dielectric dispersion measurements with singly dispersed nanodroplets of the same system as used with the cluster studies. The activation energy attributed to the counterion mobility allowed one to calculate approximately the minimum distance between the (positive) counterion in the bulk and the surfactant anion in the interface.
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