A facile surfactant critical micelle concentration determination.
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SUBMITTER: Cai L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3228408 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
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A facile surfactant critical micelle concentration determination.
Cai Lifeng L Gochin Miriam M Liu Keliang K
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20110405 19
Liquid surface curvature variations in microplate wells due to different liquid surface tension cause significant signal change in spectroscopic measurement using a plate reader with a vertical detecting light beam. The signals have been quantitated and used to develop a method for facile surfactant critical micelle concentration determination. ...[more]
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