Adsorption of copolymers and surfactants from micellar solutions

Surfactant molecules that adsorb strongly to liquid surfaces and interfaces often also self-assemble into micelles. The dynamics of adsorption of individual surfactant molecules from a solution with a concentration below the CMC to a surface or interface is simple, and well understood. The dynamics of adsorption from micellar solutions has been less heavily studied, either theoretically or experimentally, and is less well understood. I will discuss a model of adsorption from a micellar solution to a rapidly created, initially bare interface, and consider how this transport problem is affected by the temporary creation of a region near in which the surface in which the local concentration is temporarily suppressed well below the CMC. I will also discuss analysis of experimental measurements of the dynamic interfacial tension of aqueous solutions of a component of lung surfactant (Lyso-PC).