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Role of alcohol in microemulsions as determined from volume and heat capacity data for the water-sodium dodecylsulfate -n-butanol system at 25°C

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Densities and heat capacities of the ternary system water-sodium dodecylsulfate — n-butanol were measured at 25°C over the complete alcohol mole-fraction or solubility range. Apparent and partial molar volumes and heat capacities of n-butanol were derived and have been analyzed as a function of the concentration of both the surfactant and the alcohol. Characteristic changes suggest that, at low concentrations, n-butanol is partially solubilized in mixed micelles but, in concentrated alcohol solutions, n-butanol largely exists in the form of microaggregates stabilized by the surfactant. Results would also suggest that at low concentrations of n-butanol another transition zone occurs in the micellar structure around 0.2–0.3 mol-kg−1 in sodium dodecylsulfate.

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Roux-Desgranges, G., Roux, A.H., Grolier, JP.E. et al. Role of alcohol in microemulsions as determined from volume and heat capacity data for the water-sodium dodecylsulfate -n-butanol system at 25°C. J Solution Chem 11, 357–375 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00649294

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