The traditional "spokes of a wheel" picture of micelles, published widely in modern organic chemistry and biochemistry texts, is best replaced with a more realistic model having a great deal more disorder.
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Citation
Menger, F. M.; Zana, R.; Lindman, B. J. Chem. Educ.1998 75 115.
Keywords
Organic Chemistry, Micelles, Molecular Properties/Structure, Textbooks, and Biochemistry
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