Fluorescence quenching in clusters of reverse micelles is analyzed on
the basis of a model which takes into account the statistical aspects
of the interdroplet migration of the excited probe, and the quencher d
istribution among micelle confinements. The probe's migration frequenc
y between neighboring micelles is assumed to be linearly proportional
to the number of micelles in direct contact. The fluorescence decay fu
nction is expressed in terms of the joint probability distribution of
quencher occupancy and local micelle connectivity. In the particular c
ase where the joint probability distribution is a product of independe
nt Poisson distributions, the zeroth-order approximation of the decay
function is reduced to the expression employed by Johannsson, Almgren
and Alsins in their luminescence quenching study of clusters of revers
e micelles.