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Based on the assumption of spherical hemimicelle with a hydrophobic core of diameter of maximum hydrocarbon chain length of surfactant, the aggregation numbers of hemimicelles have been calculated for several values ofn, the carbon atoms of surfactant alkyl chain. The results are in reasonable good agreement with the hemimicelle aggregation number from experimental data for several corresponding systems. The other possibilities of the hemimicelle shape which allow to incorporate a larger number of hydrocarbon chains in a hemimicelle have also been discussed.
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On leave from Department of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Gu, T., Rupprecht, H. Hemimicelle shape and size. Colloid & Polymer Sci 268, 1148–1150 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410680
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410680