Cationic amphitropic gemini surfactants with hydrophilic oligo(oxyethylene) spacer chains

Abstract

New gemini diammonium surfactants have been synthesized in which the spacer chain consists of oligo(oxyethylene) units and which exhibit thermotropic liquid crystalline lamellar α and β as well as lyotropic mesophases.

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