FIGURE 11.
Schematic representation of the coalescence of two disklike micelles in a edge-to-edge configuration. (a) Integration over the coordinates of all configurations at separation h ≈ hf gives the reaction volume Sijξ with Sij the reaction surface and ξ the distance over which coalescence can typically occur. (b) The scaling for the reaction surface, Sij ∼ rj(ri + rj), is obtained by considering a disk of radius rj sampling all possible edge-to-edge configurations with a disk of radius ri.