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Probing water mobility in confining channels of reverse wormlike micelles
Hilda Camila Nascimento Nogueira1, Daniela Almeida Vieira Fogaça da Rocha1, Edvaldo Sabadini1
1Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas, Brazil. sabadini@unicamp.br.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 13, 2023
Abstract:
Reverse wormlike micelles are a potential template for chemical reactions in confined environments. Here, we use time-domain NMR to demonstrate the solvent effect on the mobility of water molecules. The higher the cohesive energy of alkanes, the lower the water mobility, and the less viscous the solution.
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