Simulation of Surfactant-Oil-Solvent Ternary System: Mean Field Theory

摘要

The properties of ternary mixtures of surfactant-oil-water based on the use of the single chain mean-field (SCMF) theory is presented.A new methodology is applied where the chains of surfactant and oil are thrown randomly onto a three-dimensional lattice of size L x L x L.We determine the critical micelle concentrations,density distribution and the cluster size distributions for the H4T4 amphiphile and oil molecules,T_x,of length x in a water solvent.A good agreement of the critical micelle concentration values with those of Monte Carlo simulations is obtained.