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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 31.
Published in final edited form as: Langmuir. 2008 May 6;24(9):4999–5002. doi: 10.1021/la703833v

Scheme 1. Proposed Cation-Induced Carboxylate Cross-Linking of Fe(III)–ME Headgroups as a Mechanism to Promote the Micelle-to-Vesicle Transitiona.

Scheme 1

a The resulting “composite surfactant” would have a lower headgroup-area/tail-volume ratio that may favor vesicle formation.22