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Morteza G Khaledi1, Samuel I Jenkins, Shuang Liang
1Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, 2620 Yarborough Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8204, USA. khaledi@ncsu.edu
Abstract:
We have discovered that water-miscible perfluorinated alcohols and acids (FA) can induce simple and complex coacervation in aqueous solutions of a wide range of amphiphilic molecules such as synthetic surfactants, phospholipids, and bile salts as well as polyelectrolytes. This unique phenomenon seems to be nearly ubiquitous, especially for complex coacervate systems composed of mixed catanionic amphiphiles. In addition, coacervation and aqueous phase separation were observed over a wide range of surfactants concentrations and for different mole fractions of the oppositely charged amphiphile.
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