https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2001-10106-7
Effects of properties of the surfactant on its aggregate behavior
1
Department of Physics, of Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, PRC
2
Department of Physics, Xiaogan University, Xiaogan, Hubei, 432100, PRC
* e-mail: xwzou@whu.edu.cn
Received:
25
July
2001
Revised:
7
May
2002
Published online:
25
January
2014
The effects of the solvent-surfactant interaction, chain length and stiffness of surfactants on the formation of aggregates and the aggregation degree of surfactants in the two-dimension solution have been investigated using discontinuous molecular-dynamics simulations. When the tail-water repulsion increases or the head-water attraction decreases, the aggregation degree increases. Increasing the chain length and raising the stiffness of surfactants lead to the increment of the aggregation degree.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, Società Italiana di Fisica, 2002
