PMID- 30698441
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20191120
IS  - 1520-5827 (Electronic)
IS  - 0743-7463 (Linking)
VI  - 35
IP  - 8
DP  - 2019 Feb 26
TI  - Discrete and Discontinuous Increase in the Micellar Aggregation Number: Effects 
      of the Alkyl Chain Length on Platonic Micelles.
PG  - 3156-3161
LID - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b04204 [doi]
AB  - Micelles with perfect monodispersity in terms of the aggregation number ( N(agg)) 
      have recently been discovered, whose values of N(agg) interestingly always 
      coincide with the vertex or face number of regular polyhedral structures (i.e., 
      Platonic solids). Owing to the monodispersity of the micelles, named Platonic 
      micelles, we could expect them to exhibit unprecedented aggregation behavior. In 
      this study, the effects of alkyl chain length on micellar aggregation behavior 
      were characterized using small-angle scattering techniques such as small-angle 
      X-ray scattering and asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation coupled with 
      multi-angle light scattering, as well as analytical ultracentrifugation 
      measurements. The N(agg) of Platonic micelles discretely and discontinuously 
      increased when increasing the alkyl chain length, which differs markedly from the 
      findings for conventional micelles. This aggregation behavior could be reasonably 
      explained by the relationship between the thermodynamic stability of the micelles 
      and the coverage density defined by one of the unsolved mathematical problems: 
      the Tammes problem.
FAU - Fujii, Shota
AU  - Fujii S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6594-5211
AD  - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Kitakyushu , 1-1 
      Hibikino , Kitakyushu , Fukuoka 808-0135 , Japan.
FAU - Yamada, Shimpei
AU  - Yamada S
AD  - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Kitakyushu , 1-1 
      Hibikino , Kitakyushu , Fukuoka 808-0135 , Japan.
FAU - Araki, Masataka
AU  - Araki M
AD  - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Kitakyushu , 1-1 
      Hibikino , Kitakyushu , Fukuoka 808-0135 , Japan.
FAU - Lee, Ji Ha
AU  - Lee JH
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4456-0128
AD  - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Kitakyushu , 1-1 
      Hibikino , Kitakyushu , Fukuoka 808-0135 , Japan.
FAU - Takahashi, Rintaro
AU  - Takahashi R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2168-9436
AD  - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Kitakyushu , 1-1 
      Hibikino , Kitakyushu , Fukuoka 808-0135 , Japan.
FAU - Sakurai, Kazuo
AU  - Sakurai K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9737-0061
AD  - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Kitakyushu , 1-1 
      Hibikino , Kitakyushu , Fukuoka 808-0135 , Japan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190212
PL  - United States
TA  - Langmuir
JT  - Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
JID - 9882736
EDAT- 2019/01/31 06:00
MHDA- 2019/01/31 06:01
CRDT- 2019/01/31 06:00
PHST- 2019/01/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/01/31 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2019/01/31 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b04204 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Langmuir. 2019 Feb 26;35(8):3156-3161. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b04204. Epub 
      2019 Feb 12.