The charge-frustrated model of self assembly is applied to compute the curvature elasticity of saturated surfactant interfaces in bicontinuous microemulsions. Explicit formulas are derived to relate the elastic moduli to molecular properties such as surfactant chain length. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

• Received 21 September 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.53.R41