Self-assembled structures for surfactant-inorganic component-water system confined in two flat walls

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 554-560

  Bai, Liguang ^a   Li, Yingxia ^a   Chen, Biaohua ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

flat confining walls; lattice Monte Carlo; self assembled structures; surfactant inorganic component water system

Indexed keywords

BINARY PHASE DIAGRAMS; COMPONENT CONCENTRATION; CONFINING WALLS; LAMELLAR MORPHOLOGY; LATTICE MONTE CARLO; LATTICE MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES; SOLUTION COMPOSITION; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; SURFACTANT-INORGANIC COMPONENT-WATER SYSTEM; TERNARY PHASE DIAGRAMS;

MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; WATERWORKS;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84862110935     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: 10290435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2011.638922     Document Type: Article

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