N. Gorski et al., Pressure dependence of the chemical potential of tetradecyldimethylaminoxide micelles in D2O. A SANS study, LANGMUIR, 15(23), 1999, pp. 8080-8085
By means of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments the dependenc
e on pressure of the mean aggregation number [N] of rodlike tetradecyldimet
hylaminoxide (TDMAO) micelles in D2O was determined for pressures up to 200
0 bar, at temperatures of 280.8, 294.9, and 308.1 K and at a TDMAO concentr
ation c = 118 mM L-1. By an analysis via the so-called ladder model, the de
pendence of the difference of the chemical potentials on pressure for a mon
omer being located in the end cap and in the cylindrical part of the sphero
cylindrical micelles, respectively, was extracted. This difference depends
on concentration c, pressure P, and strongly on temperature T. For the two
lower temperatures, pressure-induced phase transition was observed.