Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, Vol.32, No.3, 344-347, 1999
Solute transfer between microemulsion droplets composed of sodium dioleylphosphate and sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate mixture
We have already reported that the microemulsion system composed of sodium dioleylphosphate (SDOLP) and sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate mixtures has peculiar dynamic properties, i.e., slow solute-exchange between the bulk aqueous phase and microemulsion droplets with increasing SDOLP content in total surfactants, and fast exchange between microemulsion droplets. In this work, as a supplement to that report, we present the full data concerned with the interdroplet solute-exchange process with the aid of time-resolved fluorescence. The specific rate of the interdroplet quencher-exchange is 10(8) dm(3)mol(-1)s(-1) in order of magnitude, and is insensitive to the SDOLP-content, The quenching process between the fluorescence probe and the quencher in a droplet was markedly decreased with increasing SDOLP-content, The droplet concentration determined from this quenching process approximately agrees with those evaluated from a geometric model.