Water/ionic surfactant/alkanol/hydrocarbon systems. Realms-of-existence and transport properties of microemulsion type media

From a thorough study of many systems incorporating water, the ionic surfactant sodium dodecylsulfate, straighter or branched alkanols and aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons, it clearly appears that the molecular structure of the alkanol used as the cosurfactant is the composition factor that primarily determines the configuration of the microemulsion domain and, correlatively, the type of the microemulsion electroconductive and viscous behavior.