Sebastian Schöttl, Nobuyuki Matubayasi and Dominik Horinek
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020,22, 22185-22189
DOI:
10.1039/D0CP02933E,
Communication
Hydrophobe solubilization concepts rely on the shielding of solutes from water in nonpolar domains comprising traditional surfactants. We show how an octanol/ethanol/water surfactant-free microemulsion solvates hydrophobic propane in small octanol/ethanol aggregates similar to traditional micelles. These aggregates have the comparable solvent quality as bulk octanol/ethanol with the same composition.