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J. Phys. IV France
Volume 03, Number C8, Décembre 1993
IX International Conference on Small Angle Scattering
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| Page(s) | C8-117 - C8-127 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:1993822 | |
J. Phys. IV France 03 (1993) C8-117-C8-127
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:1993822
Measurement and interpretation of counterion distributions around cylindrical micelles
S.-L. CHANG1, C.-Y. KU2, S.-H. CHEN2 and J.S. LIN31 Department of Nuclear Science, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
2 Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
3 Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, U.S.A.
Abstract
Radial distributions of heavy monovalent counterions around cylindrical micelles are measured directly using a small angle x-ray scattering. For the purpose of the analysis, the shape and size of the micelles are determined separately by a small angle neutron scattering. The micelles we used are formed by a comb-shaped copolymer poly-(1-octadecene-co-maleic anhydride), abbreviated as PODMA in aqueous solutions neutralized by cesium hydro-oxides. The results are used to critically test the validity of solutions of non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation in the cell model to predict the radial distributions of monovalent counterions. The accuracy of the solutions of the non-lineaar PB equation for different magnitudes of linear charge density parameter is checked against Monte Carlo simulations. For comparison, we also show results of a similar experiment and analysis done for the counterion distributions around persistent length DNA in solution.
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