Surfactant-polymer interactions

Whereas mixed solutions of a homopolymer and a surfactant show interesting analogies with mixed polymer solutions, it has been demonstrated recently that mixtures of hydrophobically modified water-soluble polymers and surfactants show analogies with mixed surfactant systems. Other recent progress has concerned the micellization of an ionic surfactant on a polyelectrolyte chain, the behavior of polymers in the presence of connected surfactant self-assemblies, and surfactant micellization in covalent polymer gels.