THE ROLE OF HYDROPHOBIC INTERACTIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF GAS HYDRATES
It is well known that water molecules at room temperature tend to form ‘iceberg’ structures around the hydrocarbon chains of surfactant molecules dissolved in water. The entropy reduction (times the absolute temperature T) associated with the iceberg structure can be considered as the net driving...
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| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2231 |