POLYMERS, COLLOIDS AND MICROEMULSIONS: NEUTRON SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Equilibrium Properties: Micellar Size, Shape and Flexibility

  • The Sphere-to-Flexible Cylinder Transition

  • Micellar Size and Flexibility: The Polymer Analogy

  • Micellar Growth and Interactions

  • Micelles as Equilibrium Polyelectrolytes

• Nonequilibrium Properties: The Micelle-to-Vesicle Transition

• Conclusions

• Acknowledgements

• References