Solution Chemistry of Surfactants

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of Volume 1.- I. General Overview Papers.- Ionic Interaction and Phase Stability.- Comparative Effects of Chemical Structure and Environment on the Adsorption of Surfactants at the L/A Interface and on Micellization.- Studies of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals that Align in Magnetic Fields.- Use of Surfactant and Micellar Systems in Analytical Chemistry.- Micellar Systems Studied by Positron Annihilation Techniques.- Solubilization in Aqueous Micellar Systems.- Nonionic Surfactant Micelles and Mixed Micelles with Phospholipids.- Commercial Surfactants: An Overview.- II. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Micellization in Aqueous Media.- Direct Measurements of the Thermodynamic Properties of Surfactants.- Electrolyte Effect on Micellization.- Kinetics of Micellization.- Thermodynamics of Micelle Formation: Model Calculations for Sodium Octanoate.- Pre-Micellar Maximum in the Light Scattering from Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide and Chloride.- Relaxation Amplitude of Non-Ionic Micelle Systems Perturbed by Solvent-Jump.- Mixed Micelle Solutions.- Anomalous Behaviour of Aromatic Alcohols on the Critical Micelle Concentrations of Cationic Surfactants.- Some Observations on the Micellar Behavior of Surfactants in Water and Aqueous Solvents.- Investigation of Aggregation Phenomena in Aqueous Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Solutions at High NaCl Concentration by Quasielastic Light Scattering.- The Effect of Dissolved Oils and Alcohols on the CMC of Synthetic and Petroleum Sulfonates.- Application of Keto-Enol Tautomerism to the Study of Micellar Property of Surfactants.- III. Effect of Solvent and Micelles in Nonaqueous Media.- Solvent Effects on Amphiphilic Aggregation.- Association Behavior of Synthetic and Naturally Occurring Surfactants in Nonaqueous Solvents.- Ultrasonic Absorption Studies of Solutions of Ionic Amphiphiles in Organic Solvents.- Formation of Micelles of Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide in Water-Dimethyl Sulfoxide Solutions.- Temperature Effect on Molecular Dynamics in Micellar System. Proton Spin-Lattice Relaxation Study of Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide in Water-Dimethylsulfoxide Mixtures.- About the Contributors.