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Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Aggregation Properties of Multiheaded Cationic Surfactants in Water

Samanta, Suman K and Bhattacharya, Santanu and Maiti, Prabal K (2009) Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Aggregation Properties of Multiheaded Cationic Surfactants in Water. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113 (41). pp. 13545-13550.

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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp902376y

Abstract

The aggregation property of multiheaded surfactants has been investigated by constant pressure molecular dynamics (MD) simulation in aqueous medium. The model multiheaded surfactants contain more than one headgroup (x = 2, 3, and 4) for a single tail group. This increases the hydrophilic charge progressively over the hydrophobic tail which has dramatic consequences in the aggregation behavior. In particular, we have looked at the change in the aggregation property such as critical micellar concentration (cmc), aggregation number, and size of the micelles for the multiheaded surfactants in water. We find with increasing number of headgroups of the Multiheaded surfactants that the cmc values increase and the aggregation numbers as well as the size of the micelles decrease. These trends are in agreement with the experimental findings as reported earlier with x = 1, 2, and 3. We also predict the aggregation properties of multiheaded surfactant With four headgroups (x = 4) for which no experimental studies exist yet.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to American Chemical Society.
Department/Centre: Division of Chemical Sciences > Organic Chemistry
Date Deposited: 27 Oct 2009 11:32
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2010 05:50
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/24527

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