A team of scientists have shown that equilibrium phase diagrams can predict the outcome of polymerization reactions in surfactant systems. The team from Lund University, Sweden and Coimbra University, Portugal, claim that the general trends that should also be relevant for more complex systems.
Read the full article for free here: Salomé dos Santos, Lennart Piculell, Ola J. Karlsson and Maria da Graça Miguel, Soft Matter, 2011, DOI:10.1039/C0SM00958J (Advance Article)