• Debolina Mitra

Micelles are the simplest colloidal aggregates of amphiphiles with wide range of application in industrial, pharmaceutical, and biomedical fronts. Solubilization, dispersion and detergency are the most important features of micellar applications. Substrate binding and solubilization in the micelle are the primary reasons for influencing reaction kinetics, either enhanced or retarded as the case may be. Both natural and synthetic micellar system can be used as “carrier systems” for hydrophilic drug molecules. They are used in biochemical studies as a mimetic of cell membranes or to solubilize integral membrane proteins quantified by the micellar solubilization ratio, MSR. Pollutants can be solubilized by the micelles: both organic and inorganic pollutants are amenable to such conditions.

Micelle, hydrophobic, hydrophilic, double layer, counterion, critical micelle concentration

"THERMODYNAMICS OF MICELLIZATION: AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.1363-1367, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905T04.pdf

"THERMODYNAMICS OF MICELLIZATION: AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp1363-1367, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905T04.pdf