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In this paper we outline a simple statistical thermodynamic treatment of those portions of amphiphilic-solution phase diagrams which involve finite aggregates, i.e. isotropic phases of micelles of all shapes and sizes, and orientationally-aligned (nematic) states of rods and disks. In accounting for the equilibrium distribution of sizes we focus on several aspects of surfactant self-association which have not been treated in previous theories.
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Gelbart, W.M., Ben-Shaul, A., McMullen, W.E. (1986). On the Theory of Micellar Size in Isotropic and Nematic Surfactant Solutions. In: Mittal, K.L., Bothorel, P. (eds) Surfactants in Solution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1831-6_34
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