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Cover Picture: Wetting of Surfactant Solutions by Alkanes (ChemPhysChem 3/2005)
Author(s) -
Wilkinson Katherine M.,
Bain Colin D.,
Matsubara Hiroki,
Aratono Makoto
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.200590000
Subject(s) - wetting , pulmonary surfactant , hexadecane , monolayer , drop (telecommunication) , wax , chemistry , bromide , chemical engineering , materials science , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , composite material , telecommunications , biochemistry , engineering , computer science
The cover picture shows a cut‐away section of an oil droplet on a surfactant solution, in which a lens of oil is in equilibrium with a mixed monolayer of surfactant and oil. The background is a Brewster angle micrograph of a drop of hexadecane on a 1.2 m M solution of dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB), just above the wetting transition. In their article on page 547, Wilkinson et al. show that first‐order wetting transitions in alkanes on surfactant solutions are a general, but not universal, phenomenon.