Estudos de sistemas micelares usando voltametria com microeletrodos / Studies of micellar systems with microelectrode voltammetry

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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Voltammetry with platinum disc microelectrodes was employed to gain information on diffusion coefficients, D, of micelles in aqueous solution. Owing to the low solubility in water and high affinity for the micellar core, ferrocene was used as electroactive probe. Diffusion coefficients of hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (C16TABr) were determined in solutions containing the surfactant in different concentrations and the data were fitted according to the linear interaction theory. This procedure allowed the diffusion coefficient at the critical micelle concentration to be found, as well as the intermicellar interaction parameter. The latter was used to estimate the minimum concentration of electrolyte that promotes morphological changes in the micelles (sphere to rod transition). The micellar hydrodynamic radius was calculated by using the Stokes-Einstein equation. A complementary study involved the addition of n-decanol to surfactant solutions and the diffusion coefficient was compared with the one obtained in the absence of the fatty alcohol. Experiments were also performed in solutions containing other surfactants (C14TABr, C12TABr e C10TABr) to investigate the dependence of D on the length of the hydrophobic tail. The influence of the hydrodynamic radii and supporting electrolyte concentration for the sphere to rod transition on the surfactant tail was also studied. A brief study on the electrochemical oxidation of ferrocene at two different micellar media (C16TABr and SDS sodium dodecyl sulfate) was done. The voltammetric experiments showed that the anodic process occurs at less positive potentials in solutions containing SDS and a likely explanation involves the electrostatic interaction between the micelle and the electrode surface. Experiments with a homemade twin-electrode thin-layer cell (TETLC) were performed in order to evaluate the interaction of ferrocinium, the product of ferrocene oxidation, with C16TABr micelles. The diffusion coefficient of ferrocinium was obtained and the affinity of this generated electroactive species with the micellar core was discussed.

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diffusion coefficient electrochemistry coeficiente de difusão voltametria microelectrodes voltammetry surfactants eletroquímica tensoativos micela microeletrodos micelle

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